Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday that seven cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected in the South American country.
All the cases occurred in people who had traveled from other countries including Panama, Dominican Republic, Spain and Turkey, and got positive test results at the airport.
"Omicron has arrived, it is more contagious," Maduro said on state television.
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