{"id":58144,"date":"2021-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=dbd85412ee0c65347e327f33a0435810"},"modified":"2021-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"moh-kuwait-records-1st-omicron-variant-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/moh-kuwait-records-1st-omicron-variant-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"MoH: Kuwait records 1st Omicron variant infection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that it had recorded the first infection of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.<\/P>
Speaking to KUNA, the ministry’s official spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said that the Omicron case was of a traveler coming from one of the African countries, which recorded an Omicron infection.<\/P>
The traveler had received both dosage of the COVID-19 vaccine previously and now he is under institutional quarantine according to health protocols, affirmed Al-Sanad.<\/P>
He added that the ministry had taken necessary precautions as several nations announced the discovery of the new variant.<\/P>
Currently, the pandemic situation in Kuwait is stable; however, citizens and residents are advised to take the booster vaccine shot to help the ministry curb the spread of the virus, he said.<\/P>
He stressed that studies had shown that current vaccines were affective against the new variant. <\/P>
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Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/P>
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The Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that it had recorded the first infection of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.Speaking to KUNA, the ministry’s official spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said that the Omicron case was of a traveler coming from one o…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n