LAHORE MIRROR– Pakistan has recorded 372 cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus till now, as per the data of the ministry of national health services.
The country confirmed its first case of the highly-transmissible variant on December 13 from its most populous city, Karachi. Three weeks later, the variant, which was first reported by South Africa and Botswana, has spread to its major cities.
Dr. Faisal Sultan, the special assistant to the prime minister on health, confirmed to Pakistani news channel Geo.tv that a total of 372 infections of the variant have been recorded so far. Most of the cases have been reported from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
Dr. Sultan added that “it [Omicron] is now in most large countries, and forms an ever increasing proportion amongst the cases detected.”
