JUST IN: Canada Detects Two Cases Of Omicron COVID-19 From Two Travellers To Nigeria
Yesterday, Canada said it has identified its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid in two people who had travelled recently to Nigeria. Information Guide Nigeria
The government of Ontario confirmed that the two cases are in the capital, Ottawa. THE PUNCH reports.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaJean-Yves Duclos, the Health Minister in a statement said: “I was informed today by the Public Health Agency of Canada that testing and monitoring of COVID-19 cases has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of concern in Ontario”. jamb results
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“As the monitoring and testing continue, it is expected that other cases of this variant will be found in Canada,” he was quoted as saying by France24.com.
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 yesterday that the centre is prioritising sequencing of recently accrued samples from SARS-COV-2 positive travellers from all countries, especially those from countries that have reported the Omicron variant already.