in Kazakhstan revealed eight cases of Omicron-strain coronavirus. This is reported on the website of the Ministry of Health of the Republic.
According to the ministry, seven cases were revealed in Almaty, another one in Nur Sultan.
In total, a genomic sequencing of 96 percent of positive samples was made, the fraction of an ohomikron strain amounts to 8.3 percent among them. Another 71 percentage of samples is a delta strain, 16 percent – Delta-Plus. 4.7 percent – other strains of COVID-19.
“feature of the version of” Omicron “is the high prevalence of infection (the distribution coefficient is 1: 5), an increased risk of re-infection,” added to the Ministry of Health. There noted that Omicron strain applies to 70 times faster than delta option.
The total number of coronavirus infections in Kazakhstan on January 6 exceeded 990 thousand.