No Reported Case Of Omicron Variant In Nigeria Yet – FG

The federal government on Monday insisted Nigeria is yet to record a case of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19, despite Canadian authorities’ claims that two passengers from Nigeria had tested positive.

COVID-19 VariantSpeaking at the Presidential Steering Committee briefing in Abuja, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Ifedayo Adetifa, said there was no need to give in to speculations.

Coronavirus Covid-19“I do not encourage citizens to waste energy on speculating,” he said. “I think what we need to do is to focus on what we actually know. And what we know, for now, is that we do not have a case in Nigeria at the moment. “Now, we have a pipeline of samples that are in process, whose results will be ready tomorrow; so this situation, of course, can change.”
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