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Nigeria confirms first Omicron cases in airport arrivals in past week

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01-12-2021 | 10:00

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Nigeria confirms first Omicron cases in airport arrivals in past week

Nigeria on Wednesday confirmed its first cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in air passenger arrivals, but amended an earlier statement to say the travelers had arrived in Nigeria only over the past week.

Initially, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said that retrospective sequencing of previously confirmed COVID cases among travelers to Nigeria had identified the Omicron variant among a sample collected in October. An amended statement from the NCDC did not mention the October sample and a spokesman said that sample contained the Delta variant, not Omicron.

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