The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that "an urgent meeting of G7 health ministers will be convened" later on Monday "to discuss the developments on Omicron", a new variant of the coronavirus, APA reports citing Sputnik.
The gathering, which will be held "under the UK presidency", comes after a third Omicron case was recently confirmed in Britain, when an individual tested positive after travelling to London.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said that a person, who had already left Britain, had links to travel in southern Africa and that targeted testing is now being conducted in places the individual visited, including the central London borough of Westminster.
UKHSA chief executive Jenny Harries, for her part, argued that "it is very likely that we will find more cases over the coming days as we are seeing in other countries globally and as we increase case detection through focused contact tracing".
She insisted that vaccination is "critical" to help UKHSA bolster its "defences against this new variant", urging people to wear face coverings in crowded places, including public transport and shops, "to ensure we all help break the chains of transmission and slow the spread" of Omicron.
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