Uganda registers first 7 cases of omicron, says official

KAMPALA – Uganda has its archetypal 7 cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, a wellness authoritative confirmed Tuesday.

The manager of objective services, Charles Olaro, said the variant was detected successful travelers from South Africa and Nigeria who arrived successful Uganda connected Nov. 29.

“We person already notified them astir their presumption and they are already successful isolation,” helium said.

Olaro said the archetypal tests done connected the travelers aft accomplishment astatine Entebbe International Airport showed they were affirmative for the coronavirus and further investigating confirmed the caller variant.

“We utilized the genomic series tests which usually instrumentality 5 to 8 days to springiness the results,” helium said.

The Uganda Virus Research Institute successful a connection confirmed the country’s archetypal cases of the variant.

Five of the travelers were from Nigeria and 2 came from South Africa, said Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng. They person mild symptoms, she said.

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Uganda's 7-day rolling mean of regular caller cases has stayed comparatively debased level implicit the past 2 weeks, registering 0.07 caller cases per 100,000 radical connected Dec. 6, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Uganda, with 45 cardinal people, has recorded conscionable implicit 127,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 3,256 deaths, according to the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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