“Last night, a tourist who returned from South Africa was found to have several mutations characteristic of the omicron,” Klose wrote on Twitter.
As the minister stressed, "the suspicions are very serious, the person has already been sent to isolation."
On November 25, it became known that scientists have identified a new strain of coronavirus in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong, which could potentially become the most dangerous.
Later it was designated by the Greek letter "omicron".
The World Health Organization reported that existing PCR tests are capable of recognizing a new variant of the omicron coronavirus.
The chairman of the World Medical Association (WMA), Frank Ulrich Montgomery, believes that a new strain of the omicron coronavirus could become as dangerous as the Ebola virus.