The discovery suggests that the variant has been circulating for weeks before first being reported in South Africa:
Nigeria confirmed its first cases of the omicron coronavirus variant Wednesday, according to a statement from the country’s public health institute, including one case in a sample dating back to October, suggesting the variant had been circulating for weeks before being reported in South Africa last week.
The NCDC called on the country’s states for improved testing and urged the public to be on high alert. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, with 206 million people, and was the third country on the continent’s mainland to report the variant after South Africa and Botswana . The discovery of omicron in samples dating back to October underscore how little is yetabout the new coronavirus variant after researchers in South Africa sounded the alarm last week.
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