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Germany finds suspected COVID-19 variant case, minister says
Germany finds suspected COVID-19 variant case, minister says
Agence France-Presse
Published Nov 27, 2021 07:55 PM PHT
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Updated Nov 27, 2021 11:13 PM PHT
The sun sets after the first day with Germany's new COVID-19 rules at workspaces and in public transport as the spread of COVID-19 continues in Frankfurt, Germany, November 24, 2021. A person suspected to have the Omicron variant arrived in Germany through the Frankfurt international airport. Kai Pfaffenbach, Reuters/file
A German regional official said Saturday that health authorities have identified the first suspected case in the country of the new COVID-19 variant, in a person who returned from South Africa.
"The Omicron variant has with strong likelihood already arrived in Germany," Kai Klose, social affairs minister in the western state of Hesse, tweeted, referring to the strain first detected in southern Africa.
"As there is this strong suspicion, the person has been isolated at home. The full sequencing is still to be completed," the minister said.
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Klose's ministry said that the person had arrived in Germany, the EU's most populous country, at Frankfurt international airport, the country's busiest.
The suspect case in Germany follows Belgium saying on Friday it had detected the first announced case in Europe of the new COVID-19 variant, in an unvaccinated person returning from abroad.
A leading Belgian virologist, Marc Van Ranst, tweeted that the person had returned from Egypt on November 11.
In Belgium, one sample was confirmed as the novel B.1.1.529 variant (in a returning traveller from Egypt (11/11); first symptoms on 22/11).
EU health authorities have said the new strain poses a "high to very high risk" to the continent.
EU officials agreed on Friday to urge all 27 nations in the bloc to restrict travel from several southern African nations, a policy Germany has already implemented.
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