Technical Director of the Epidemiology Division Dr Avery Hinds, says evidence now suggests community spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
Speaking at Saturday’s Ministry of Health media briefing, he said what the ministry was picking up is possibly just a fraction of what is occurring.
“As we are seeing, increasing proportions of the new cases having no travel history that indicates that there are chains of community transmission,” he said.
“The evidence suggests that there is community transmission and once we see that, knowing how Omicron behaves, basically we are now contending with community spread with all the attendant regulations that will need to be adhered to mitigate that impact.
“We do want to advise additional caution for the entire population at this time as we now have to deal with this more transmissible variant.”
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