Mutation Surveillance: MoH Announced Finding No SARS-Cov-2 Variant Omicron

The Department of Public Health, the Department of Medical Research, and the Department of Medical Services and the Department of National Health Laboratory, under the Ministry of Health, have been conducting the “COVID-19 Mutation Surveillance Process” continuously in collaboration with the Tatmadaw Medical Research Unit.

According to this process, of the people who have returned from Malaysia and Thailand in December 2021 by relief flights, 20 laboratory samples of those who have been affected with COVID-19 were performed with SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron Real-Time PCR Testing and found no SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron, according to the announcement on findings from COVID-19 mutation surveillance process by the Ministry of Health on 27 December, 2021.