Covid-19: Sierra Leone confirms first Omicron case

By Grace Audu –

Health authorities in Sierra Leone has confirmed the country’s first case of the Omicron variant.

The Ministry of Health and the National Covid-19 Emergency Response Center, in a joint statement, said a passenger who travelled from Nigeria tested positive for the variant.

The person tested positive for Covid-19 on November 25. The sample was then taken for sequencing which showed he had the B.1.1.529 variant, said the statement released on Wednesday.

Omicron was first classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 26 as a “variant of concern.”