Wall Street banks stick with return-to-work plans while monitoring Omicron situation By Reuters – Investing.com

Wall Street banks stick with return-to-work plans while monitoring Omicron situation By Reuters – Investing.com

By Noor Zainab Hussain and Elizabeth Dilts Marshall

(Reuters) - Wall Street banks are not immediately changing their U.S. return-to-work plans in response to the new COVID-19 variant, but they are monitoring the situation, they said.

The World Health Organization said as more countries report cases, the new COVID-19 variant dubbed Omicron carries a "very high" global risk of surges. Scientists, however, said it could take weeks to understand its severity.