Canada has said it has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid in two people who had travelled recently to Nigeria.
The government of Ontario confirmed that the two cases are in the
capital, Ottawa.
Federal and Ontario provincial officials said both patients are in
isolation while public health authorities trace their possible contacts.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said this in a statement
But Federal Government had claimed that the new COVID-19 variant
was not in Nigeria yet.
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr
Ifedayo Adetifa, said in a statement on Sunday that the centre is
prioritising sequencing of recently accrued samples from SARS-COV-2
positive travelers from all countries, especially those from countries that
have reported the Omicron variant already.
virologists have faulted the decision of the Federal Government not to
test the South African delegates on their arrival in the country on
Monday (today) despite the newly discovered strain of the coronavirus
in Southern Africa.
