EU says 42 Omicron cases confirmed in 10 countries in the bloc
A health worker holds a vial of the Pfizer- BioNTech Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 30 November 2021. Sri Lanka is currently using Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford AstraZeneca, China's Sinopharm, Russian Sputnik V, and Moderna Covid -19 vaccines for the Vaccine rollout. The Sri Lankan government on 27 November imposed a travel ban on travelers from six southern African nations due to a new variant of the Covid-19 named Omicron. EPA-Yonhap
The head of the European Union's public health agency said on Tuesday that 42 cases of infection with the COVID-19 Omicron variant have been confirmed in ten EU countries.
Andrea Ammon, who chairs the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control (ECDC), told an online conference that authorities in the EU were analysing another six "probable" cases, noting that confirmed cases were mild or without symptoms. (Reuters)