Omikron variant now predominant in Lower Saxony

Created: 01/04/2022, 02:28 PM

A rapid corona test is processed in a test station.

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The omicron variant of the coronavirus is now predominant in Lower Saxony.

Last week, this variant was detected in around 70 percent of the tests examined, said the head of the Corona crisis team, Heiger Scholz, on Tuesday in Hanover.

Accordingly, a total of around 1400 tests were examined for the variants, and the Omikron variant was detected in a little more than 1000 cases.

Hanover - In the first week of December, this share was reportedly 2.2 percent.

At that time around 2100 tests were examined.

Scholz said that there were significantly more tests overall and only around five percent of them were examined for the different variants of the coronavirus.

He emphasized that there was no reason that the picture of the virus variants was altogether different, since the tests examined were a random selection.

The State Health Office first detected the Omikron variant in Lower Saxony on December 3.

dpa