The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three more cases of Omicron COVID-19 variant in Nigeria.

In a statement on Tuesday, the agency stated that the fresh Omicron cases were detected in persons with recent travel history to South Africa.

“The NCDC through the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) continues to coordinate genomic surveillance activities across the country to sequence all positive COVID-19 samples from international travellers arriving in Nigeria. This includes sequencing of positive samples from international travellers from October 2021 to date.

“The Delta variant remains the dominant variant and so far, we have not seen the replacement of this variant by the new Omicron variant as observed elsewhere. The Omicron variant is a source of global concern because of its increased risk of transmissibility and its potential to escape protective immune responses induced by natural infection and/or vaccination.

“Taken together, and if true, the Omicron variant can significantly change the current global COVID-19 epidemiology. There is currently no evidence of generalised or community transmission of this variant in Nigeria. However, the NCDC will continue coordinating and implementing genomic surveillance activities incountry to keep Nigerians reliably informed about existing variants, the Omicron and indeed other variants that may arise based on national data and emerging global evidence,” NCDC Director General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa said.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases of the Omicron variant detected in Nigeria to six.

The NCDC had on 1st December 2021 announced the detection of three cases.

YeyeGbami:
I’ve never seen citizens who hate themselves and their country like Nigerians.

neonly:



Leave them let them continue to announce sometime we no dey by d time d whole world go put travel ban on d country Na dat time der eyes go open

YeyeGbami:



Covid money don sweet them.

YeyeGbami:
I’ve never seen citizens who hate themselves and their country like Nigerians.

Kriss216:
Scam activated.



Stay tuned.

References:


https://dailytrust.com/just-in-three-fresh-omicron-cases-confirmed-in-nigeria

YeyeGbami:
I’ve never seen citizens who hate themselves and their country like Nigerians.

AntiBMC:
How did they diagnose it?
No constant electricity, no state of the art labs, I doubt there are competent virologists in Nigeria....so how did they diagnose the Covid variant?
Cl0wns.

Okunga:
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