How is the world responding to the new Omicron variant of Covid -19?
Flight bans, booster jabs and mask mandates are back across the world. But will they work?
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Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Harry Clarke-Ezzidio is a junior reporter at the New Statesman.
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