Is South Africa Responsible for This Pandemic?

Doctor hotes is the co director of the centre for vaccine development at texas children's hospital. He talks about what omicron is and how countries should be reacting to it. How do we know where this variant comes from, you know, because we will say south african variant or not, but it was sequence does i understand in south africa. Andhen, the second part of that is, are we not only discovering a variant now, but not where the variant is?