Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Sunday reported 60 new cases of Covid-19 and zero deaths in the last three days (24-Thursday, 22-Friday, 14- Saturday).
The total number of cases registered in the Sultanate has now reached 304,843, including 4,113 deaths.
The total number of recoveries is 300,191 while the recovery rate is 98.5 percent.
In the last 24 hours, no patients were admitted to hospitals across the country and the total number of inpatients is 9, including two in the intensive care units.
This is the highest number of cases reported on a Sunday (figures three days) as 35 cases were reported on December 12, 22 cases on December 5, 35 on November 30 (five days including National Day holidays), 26 on November 21, 19 on November 14, 36 on November 7.
The last time the Sultanate of Oman reported 50 cases and above on a Sunday was 50 on October 31.
The Omicron variant is spreading significantly faster than the Delta strain in countries with documented community transmission, with the number of cases doubling in 1.5 to 3 days, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday.
The United Nations’ health agency said Omicron has been reported in 89 countries.
The highly mutated variant is spreading rapidly in countries with high levels of population immunity, the WHO said, but it is unclear if this is due to the WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant” and lamented that some people were dismissing it as a mild variant. Surely, we have learned by now that we underestimate this virus at our peril. Even if Omicron does cause less severe disease, the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems.”
