Yesterday, Tuesday, the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo announced that it had recorded two confirmed cases of the “Omicron” mutant, from travelers from South Africa.
The state government, located in southern Brazil, said in a statement that “the Ministry of Health in the state of São Paulo confirmed, on Tuesday, the first two imported cases of the new mutated Omicron version of the Corona virus (SARS-Cove-2) in Brazil,” according to Agence France-Presse.
The ministry indicated that the process of verifying this mutant was done by studying the genetic sequence of the virus.
The ministry indicated in its statement that the injured are a 41-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman, who arrived in Brazil on November 23 and returned to South Africa on the 25th of the same month.
And the health authorities in the state of Sao Paulo indicated that they are in the process of verifying a third suspected case, according to AFP.
And the health authorities indicated that the possible infection of the third person belongs to a traveler who arrived from Ethiopia after he was on a visit to South Africa.
There were also reports of other suspected cases in Belo Horizonte, southeast Brazil, as well as in the capital, Brasilia.
Like many other countries, Brazil closed its borders to flights from 6 countries in the southern part of the African continent.
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