People walk along a main road wearing face masks at Yaba in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 confirmed its first cases of the new Covid-19 variant, among three passengers who had arrived from South Africa. FILE PHOTO | AFP
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, on Wednesday confirmed its first cases of the new Covid-19 variant, among three passengers who had arrived from South Africa.
"Genomic surveillance has now identified and confirmed Nigeria's first cases of the B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, now known as the Omicron variant," said the head of Nigeria's Centre for Disease Control, Ifedayo Adetifa.
