The Canadian Province\u2019s Health Minister, Christian Dub\u00e9, on Monday confirmed first case of COVID-19 Omicron variant in Quebec, bringing the total to three in the country.<\/p>\n
Dub\u00e9 told reporters at a briefing that 115 travelers coming from countries impacted by the new variant, primarily South Africa, were called and asked to take a new PCR test for COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Canada had on Sunday said it had detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of COVID-19 in two people who travelled recently to Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth patients are in isolation, while the public health authorities traced their possible contacts, said Federal and Ontario Provincial Officials.<\/p>\n
The Government of Ontario confirmed that the two cases are in the capital, Ottawa.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the monitoring and testing continues, it is expected that other cases of this variant will be found in Canada,\u201d said the country\u2019s Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, on Sunday in a statement.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Omicron as a \u201cvariant of concern\u201d and countries around the world are now restricting travel from Southern Africa, where the new strain was first detected, and taking other new precautions.<\/p>\n
WHO says it could take several weeks to know if there are significant changes in transmissibility, severity or implications for COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Canada banned travel from seven African countries over concerns about the spread of the Omicron strain, and Nigeria was not one of them.<\/p>\n
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