Cairo: Egypt on Saturday said it had detected the first three cases of the Omicron Coronavirus variant, at the peak of the vital tourist season economically.
Three Egyptians tested their positive back from abroad, the Ministry of Health said without determining where they were traveling.
One of them has mild symptoms and the other two do not have it, he added.
The country’s air and tourism sector, who suffered under global locking over the past two years, has just begun to recover and relies on the year-end vacation visit.
Omicron is the biggest threat to the health of the global public, the G7 group of developed democracy economically said this week.
Scientists remain uncertain how dangerous omicron variants are very mutated, but the initial data shows it can be more resistant to vaccines and more transmitting than Delta variants.
From December 1, Egypt increases the steps to control the spread of the virus.
This blocking officials and students was not vaccinated against Covid-19 from government offices and universities unless they showed a negative PCR test.
The country has officially recorded 373,509 cases of Coronavirus, including 21,277 deaths.
Egyptian vaccination campaign, after initially left behind, it has been accelerated in recent months with the mobile unit used.
About 40 percent of more than 102 million Egyptians have now received at least one dose of vaccines, according to the government, but only 14 million of them have two doses.
Mask-then – Which health experts considered vital steps on the spread of Coronavirus – not respected in Cairo, a city of more than 20 million residents packed meetings.
Tourism represents around a tenth of Egypt’s GDP, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line.