Omicron: 10 fresh cases detected in the country
10 more Omicron cases have been detected in the country.
With this, the total number of confirmed cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has risen to 20; all cases from Dhaka city.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The information on the new Omicron cases was published on the German-based global database GISAID this evening.
Of new cases, seven are female while three are male. They were between the ages of 18 to 65.
The samples were collected from the patients between December 14 to January 3, including five in seven days till December 30.
There was no data on the travel history of these new Omicron cases available on the website.
The Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives (iDesHi), the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) submitted those genome sequence data.
The first two Omicron cases were reported on December 9.
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