COVID-19 variant of concern were detected in the province.Dr. Kieran Moore is expected to speak about the cases of the Omicron variant, which were found in patients in Ottawa who had recently been in Nigeria.The World Health Organization has cautioned that the variant could be more contagious than others.
Canada finds first cases of Omicron COVID-19 variant in Ontario. Here’s what we know It was first detected in South Africa, and has been linked to a spike in cases there.The federal government on Friday barred visitors from seven southern African countries in an effort to prevent the variant from crossing into Canada, but Nigeria was not among them.The province has called on Ottawa to implement point-of-arrival COVID-19 testing for.