Omicron variant from a close contact of a returning traveller from a country in southern Africa.“The Health Department is also monitoring other COVID-19 cases under investigation for the Omicron variant based on travel history and working with the province to monitor COVID-19 variants of concern including Delta and Omicron,” the local public health unit said.It also said it would not reveal any more information about the confirmed case.
4 Omicron cases confirmed in Ottawa, others under investigation in Ontario Earlier this week, several other COVID-19 cases of the Omicron variant were detected including some in the Ottawa and Hamilton areas.The variant of concern was recently declared as the fifth variant of concern by the World Health.