Lusaka, Dec 5 Zambia has confirmed the presence of omicron Covid-19 variant in the southern African nation.

Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo said the variant was detected in the country's genomic sequencing laboratory in three people who tested positive in the last week, Xinhua news agency reported.

She told reporters during a press briefing that the variant was detected in two male adults with a history of travelling out of the country and one female who initially presented with mild flu-like symptoms as an out-patient at one of the hospitals in Lusaka, the country's capital but had no history of international travel.

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