According to the Ghana Health Service, the country has recorded seven new cases of Omicron in the last one week, making a total of 41.
“We saw the first of about 34 cases that were recorded at the airport. At the time, we had sequenced about 66 community samples and they were all negative” but after a second batch of about 44 tests was conducted, seven more cases were detected,” Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye said in an interview with Joy News.
Meanwhile, the GHS says the Delta variant is still the dominant variant in our communities.
The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) announced the detection of 34 cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the country on December 2, 2021.
Meanwhile, government says, any airline that brings an unvaccinated passenger would be fined $3,500 per person. This new directive comes amid a surge in the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 in Europe, the UK and the US.