

South Africa’s northern neighbour, Botswana, is the only other country in Africa to have officially identified a case of the Omicron variant at this point.
Yesterday the Belgium Health Minister, Frank Vandenbroucke, confirmed that the country had become the first in Europe to identify a case of the strain.
Belgian officials later revealed that the variant was detected in a traveller returning from Egypt.
The four remaining countries to have identified cases of the Omicron variant are Germany, Czech Republic, Israel and Hong Kong.
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