Varian Omicron, Menkes Umumkan Kasus Pertama di Indonesia
Indonesia Reports First Case of Omicron Variant
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
MENTERI Kesehatan RI Budi Gunadi Sadikin menyatakan telah mendeteksi kasus pertama Covid-19 varian Omicron di Indonesia.
Varian tersebut terdeteksi pada Rabu malam pada seorang karyawan di rumah sakit Wisma Atlet di Jakarta, yang tidak memiliki riwayat perjalanan ke luar negeri, yang disampaikan Menkes dalam konferensi pers, Kamis [16/12].
Menkes mengatakan sejauh ini tidak ada penularan komunitas, tetapi ada lima kasus suspek Omicron lagi, termasuk dua orang Indonesia yang baru saja kembali dari Amerika Serikat dan tiga warga negara China yang saat ini dikarantina di Manado, Sulawesi Utara, seperti dilansir Reuters yang dikutip MailOnline.
Pemerintah sedang menunggu sekuensing genom untuk menentukan kasus-kasus itu.
INDONESIA has identified its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant, the country´s health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Thursday.
The variant was detected on Wednesday evening in an employee at the Wisma Atlet hospital in Jakarta, who had no history of overseas travel.
The health minister said so far there was no community transmission, but there were five more suspected Omicron cases, including two Indonesians who had recently returned from the United States and three Chinese nationals currently in quarantine in Manado, North Sulawesi.
The government is waiting for genomic sequencing to determine those cases.
The Omicron variant, first detected in South Africa and Hong Kong last month, has now been reported by more than 70 countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), including in neighbouring Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines.
Preliminary evidence indicates that COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against infection and transmission linked to the variant, which also carries a higher risk of reinfection, the WHO said.
