The disease detectives went to work after reports of the discovery of Omicron sprang up from South Africa towards November end, and the genetic sequencing details were uploaded to a global database.
More COVID-19 infections were confirmed on Monday with 565 new cases, moving the infection rate up 31 percent.
Lagos had recorded 205 of those cases as Rivers, Ondo, FCT, Oyo, Ekiti, Edo, and Bayelsa followed.
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the report includes a ba
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