— Poland’s health ministry on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of the omicron coronavirus variant, detected in a visitor from Lesotho. She visited Poland to take part in the U.N. Digital Summit in the southern city of Katowice last week, and tested positive as she was preparing to leave. Laboratory testing revealed that she had the omicron variant. Poland had not registered any cases of the omicron variant until now, although a Polish teenager who traveled to China this month tested positive for it on arrival there. Since Poland’s first COVID-19 case was confirmed last March almost 3.9 million infection cases have been registered, including almost 90,000 deaths.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 16, 2021 14:09 UTC