The World Trade Organization (WTO) has delayed its clerical gathering, the worldwide body’s greatest gathering in four years, because of the development of another COVID-19 variation ‘Omicron’ in South Africa. “It is smarter to decide in favor caution…This new variation helps us…of the earnestness to remember the work we’re accused of,” WTO’s Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said.
*ANNOUNCEMENT* The imminent Ministerial Conference is postponed after an outbreak of a new strain of the COVID-19 virus led to travel restrictions that would have prevented many ministers from reaching Geneva.
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— WTO (@wto) November 26, 2021
