Latest updates of the Omicron variant: About three people, two foreign nationals and a child, tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Dr G Srinivas Rao, Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, said: “Two cases of Omicron variant in the state from countries at risk. A man from Somalia and a woman from Kenya have tested positive for Omicron. They came to Hyderabad via Dubai … We are following one more person. “Meanwhile, Algerian health authorities also confirmed the detection of the first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant on Tuesday, local media reported. A foreign national. entered Algeria on December 10 tested positive on arrival at Algiers international airport. His sample, which was sent to the Pasteur Institute in Algiers, was confirmed on Tuesday to be the Omicron variant of COVID- 19, the official APS news agency reported. Fawzi Derrar, acting director of the Institut Pasteur in Algiers, told reporters that the foreign national was placed in quarantine upon his arrival in Algeria. , the Omicron variant, which was first detected in southern Africa, has been detected in at least 65 countries around the world.

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