Morgan News Hour: Nigerian student speaks on new COVID variant identified in southern Africa

Published November 29, 2021 at 5:47 PM EST

The Morgan News Hour spoke to Osaretin Iyare, a graduate student at Morgan State University in the School of Global Journalism and Communication.

Iyare spoke about the new Omicron variant and the impact it has on Africa as a whole.

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