<span style="color: #222222;">A group of Russian scientists have arrived in South Africa to study the new coronavirus variant, Omicron. Russia's foreign ministry has tweeted a video of the team's arrival, adding that the plane was also carrying a mobile laboratory.<br />'' <br />'' The arrival comes days after South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa invited experts from different countries to join the country's scientists to study the new variant and its mutation.<br />''<br />''South Africa has seen a rise in coronavirus infections which have been attributed to the Omricon variant, which was first detected in the country last month.</span>