Figure 1.
Transmission dynamics of SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron. (A) Transmission dynamics showing the widespread transmission of novel SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron, where the color lines are showing the timeline of Omicron transmission. 16 (B) SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron variant first reported in South Africa followed by the United Kingdom (C) and subsequently spread to the United States (D). 17 (E) Relative SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron genome frequency per region (exponentially smoothed alpha = 0.3) showing the prevalence of Omicron in South America, Oceania, Europe‐UK, North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe‐noUK 16