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Nine more cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected in Bangladesh, taking the total confirmed tally to 64 till Thursday, according to GISAID, the global database for genomic data on the coronavirus.
The latest cases were detected at the virology lab of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). The lab has already shared the report with GISAID.
Earlier, 22 more Omicron cases were revealed to have been identified in the country on January 17, that had taken the number of Omicron cases confirmed, through highly time-consuming and scarcely available genomic sequencing, to 55.
The country reported its first two cases of the Omicron variant last December 11, in two members of the Bangladesh women’s cricket team that had been forced to return early from the ICC Women’s World Cup qualifiers in Zimbabwe, deep in southern Africa where the most transmissible variant of SARS COV-2 till now is believed to have originated.
Doctors in South Africa, the continent’s most developed country, were the first to alert the world of this new variant.
Bangladesh reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 last year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 last year.
