Singapore has recently confirmed 2 imported cases of COVID-19 of the Omicron B.1.1.529 variant. The two were found when they arrived from abroad and were immediately isolated.
Both cases are currently isolated at the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), with mild symptoms of cough and itching in the throat. Reportedly, both have been fully vaccinated.
How about RI? Has anything been detected?
The Director of Prevention and Control of Directly Infectious Diseases at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi, MEpid, explained that the results of the examination had not found any Omicron.
“From the examination of our genome sequencing, we don’t have it yet,” Nadia explained when contacted by detikcom, Friday (12/3/2021).
“Until now, we haven’t just done it for an extension of the quarantine,” he added.
Separately, one expert, Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist from Griffith University Australia, believes that the Omicron variant already exists but has not been detected.
This is because the genome sequence of the Corona virus in Indonesia is still relatively weak.
“The possibility that this variant already exists or has been detected at least 1, 2, 3 (cases) is, of course there is, because first when we talk about the variant being found, it doesn’t mean that on that day it really just appeared, it’s not like that,” said Dicky.
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