Researchers with Oxford University on Tuesday announced there is currently “no evidence” to suggest that common COVID-19 vaccines won’t protect against the Omicron CCP virus variant that was recently discovered and has caused worldwide panic. So far, Oxford University said in a statement, there is limited data on Omicron and that it would carefully review the impact the variant has on vaccines. Oxford partnered with drugmaker AstraZeneca to create one of the most commonly used vaccines in the world. “Despite the appearance of new variants over the past year, vaccines have continued to provide very high levels of protection against severe disease and there is no evidence so far that Omicron is any different,” Oxford said in a statement. “However, we have the necessary tools and processes in place for rapid development of an updated COVID-19 vaccine if it should be necessary.” It comes as the United States, European Union, Israel, …