13 omicron cases in Portuguese soccer team

Portuguese wellness authorities accidental they person identified 13 cases of omicron, the caller coronavirus variant believed to beryllium much contagious, among squad members of a nonrecreational shot club.

The Ricardo Jorge National Health Institute said Monday that 1 of those who tested affirmative is simply a subordinate from the Lisbon-based Belenenses shot nine who had precocious traveled to South Africa, wherever the omicron variant was archetypal identified.

The others, however, had not traveled to South Africa, indicating that this whitethorn beryllium 1 of the precise archetypal cases of section transmission of the microorganism extracurricular of confederate Africa.

All those who person been successful interaction with the affirmative cases person been ordered to isolate, careless of their vaccination status.