(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 19 - "It may be too late to respond to Omicron" since the cases of this variant of Covid in the United Kingdom are already widespread.
This is stated in an editorial in the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday version of the conservative newspaper, the British Minister of Health SajidJavid.
"There are still many things we do not know about the variant," he writes again, stressing that "we must be clear about the challenge Omicron presents. Our strategy since it emerged has been and remains to buy time so that our scientists can assess the threat and build our defenses. ".
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