DDHK.ORG - Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health) recorded that the total number of COVID-19 cases of the Omicron variant reached 254 cases as of Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Of the total patients, the two most common symptoms were cough and runny nose.
“Most of them are mild and asymptomatic. The most common symptoms are coughs (49 percent) and runny noses (27 percent)," said the Spokesperson for the Covid-19 Vaccination of the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, in a written statement, as reported by the Ministry of Health. CNN Indonesia.
Nadia explained that Omicron has a much faster transmission rate than the Delta variant. Probable cases and confirmed Omicron variants are required to isolate in hospital. This provision, he said, applies to all those who are symptomatic or not.
The addition of confirmed cases of Omicron in Indonesia is still dominated by Indonesian citizens who have just returned from overseas trips. Of the 254 cases, 239 of them were imported cases and 15 were local transmission cases. [DDHKNews]
