A student wearing a protective mask, studies in a classroom at the Merlan school in Paillet where, according to the director of the Pasteur Institut of Ivory Coast, professor Mireille Dosso, cases of the new Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 were detected, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on January 11, 2022. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)
