KATHMANDU, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) — The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is now driving daily cases to surge in Nepal, accounting for 88 percent of the samples tested recently, the country’s Ministry of Health and Population said on Sunday.
“During the latest gene sequencing of 32 samples of COVID-19 patients, the Omicron variant was present in 28 samples while Delta was found in four samples,” Sameer Kumar Adhikar