Lugansk People’s Republic medics have not recorded any Omicron cases in the LPR territory as of today, deputy chief doctor of the Lugansk Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Station Yelena Andreyenkova told Lugansk 24 TV.
“The Omicron variant has not been recorded in LPR residents so far, despite daily broad testing for COVID-19,” Andreyenkova said.
The World Health Organization called the COVID-19 coronavirus infection outbreak a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus. The first coronavirus infection cases were recorded in China in late 2019. The number of coronavirus contacts across the world has exceeded 332.6 million by now; of those, over 5.5 million people died, according to the WHO. The LPR confirmed 22,066 COVID-19 cases.
To prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection, the LPR authorities put the Republic on high alert and introduced lockdown measures.*i*t
