France mainland has said it had detected its first two cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
The health body for the Ile de France region of Greater Paris, in a statement on Thursday, disclosed the case was detected in a person who returned from Nigeria.
He stated, “The Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) was informed on Wednesday 1 December of a positive result by sequencing of the Omicron variant, in a person residing in the region, screened on his return from a trip to Nigeria. The entourage was tested and placed in solitary confinement,” the statement reads.”
