We are pleased to report that the Easy Sars COV-2 Kit code RT020-WE can detect the new viral variant defined as Omicron

The primers and probes used in the current kit are not affected by the mutations of this variant and therefore guarantee detection.To evaluate inclusivity, an in silico analysis was conducted by aligning primers and probes from the ‘Easy^® SARS-CoV-2 WE‘ kit against the complete high-coverage sequences deposited in the GISAID EpiCoV database on 1 December 2021 (4107091 sequences).  The results showed that the oligo and probe sets detecting viral genes (RdRP, N) have >99% homology with all SARS-CoV-2 sequences in the database and also including VOCs B.1 .1.7 (20I Alpha, V1), B.1.351 (20H Beta, V2), P.1/B.1.28.1 (20J Gamma, V3), B.1.617.2 (21A Delta) and B.1.1.529 (21K Omicron).