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View all search resultsExperts have called for the government to batten down the hatches against Omicron to prevent community transmission as the nation’s caseload nearly doubles, mostly as a result of international travel.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the same day the government will ensure necessary steps are taken to prevent new untraceable cases of the highly transmissible strain from spreading, as new cases of the new variant nearly doubled to 160 nationwide Wednesday, after the first case was confirmed on Nov. 30.
The health ministry said it was conducting contact tracing related to all three cases, which have mild symptoms, had no recent travel history and had been double-vaccinated. The statement did not specify whether any of the cases had received a booster.
Omicron is spreading rapidly in countries with high levels of population immunity, but it is unclear if this is due to the virus' ability to evade immunity, its inherent increased transmissibility or a combination of both, the WHO said in an update.
The prevalence of the novel coronavirus in Spain has risen three-fold over the last three weeks as authorities struggle to contain a rash of fresh clusters, mainly in the Catalonia and Aragon regions, Health Ministry data showed on Monday.
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