Published 8 December 2021
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Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Bermuda detects omicron variant
The latest COVID-19 variant Omicron has been reported in Bermuda where one imported case was recorded over the weekend.
The Ministry of Health in its COVID-19 update on Tuesday said of the country’s active cases where typing is available, 95 per cent are Delta and 5 per cent are Omicron.
Bermuda has 31 active cases of which 26 are imported, two are classified as local transmission and three are under investigation.
The ministry says genome sequencing was undertaken on the active cases, and while most of them are of the Delta variant, one case is the Omicron variant. The sequencing was done by MDL lab, and it indicated the presence of Omicron in one imported case that arrived over the weekend.
