A delegation of Russian scientists has arrived in South Africa to study the new variant of the coronavirus, Omicron, which was detected last month in this southern African country.
The Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs has tweeted a video of the team’s arrival, adding that the plane was also carrying a mobile laboratory.
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The arrival comes days after South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa invited experts from different countries to join the country’s scientists to study the new variant and its mutation, the BBC indicates.