The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed that two cases of the Omnicron variant of the coronavirus (Covid-19) have been recorded in Ghana on November 21.
The confirmation was made by the Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye in Accra on Wednesday, December 1.
The new variant has not yet been detected in the communities.
“There is the emergence of the new variant and I must say, through the robust testing at the Kotoka International Airport, Ghana has detected the Omicron variant already and the cases have come mainly from Nigeria and South Africa. The very first case that was detected during our sequencing was on the 21 of November”, Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye told pressmen.
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Source: 3news.com
