KATHMANDU, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — The Nepali government on Friday confirmed 24 new cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, as daily COVID-19 infections are growing in the South Asian country in recent days.
The Ministry of Health and Population said that the presence of the Omicron variant was confirmed in 24 samples during the gene sequencing of 1,146 samples collected from people tested positive for the c