Of the 19 infected people, 16 were asymptomatic, the remaining three had ‘very, very mild’ symptoms
A senior Botswana health official said on Tuesday that 16 of the total 19 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant detected in the country were asymptomatic, and it was “unfair” to treat the country as ground zero of the new variant.
While it is still not established where Omicron first emerged, on November 25, SA, followed by Botswana a day later, announced it had detected a new variant whose mutations were different from the dominant Delta Covid-19 variant.
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