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Omicron Variant May Have Picked Up A Piece Of Common-Cold Virus

People queue at a popup COVID-19 testing site in New York, U.S. on December 3, 2021. [Reuters]

The Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus - possibly one that causes the common cold - present in the same infected cells, according to researchers.

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