ScienceSouth AfricaSouth Africa: The team who discovered Omicron06:04This browser does not support the video element.ScienceSouth Africa08/04/2022August 4, 2022In November 2021, a team of researchers headed by Professor Tulio de Oliveira discovered the Omicron variant. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists in South Africa were doing research on epidemics. Yet not everyone approves of their work.Copy linkAdvertisement