Najeriya, kasa mafi yawan jama’a a Afirka, a ranar Laraba ta tabbatar da bullar sabon nau’in Covid-19, na farko tana mai cewa an gano ta a cikin fasinjoji uku da suka yi tafiya daga Afirka ta Kudu.
Makwabciyar a Afirka ta Yamma Ghana ita ma ta ce ta sami sabon nau’in cutar na Omicron, inda ta gano abun ya samo asali ne a Najeriya da Afirka ta Kudu.
An gano cutar ta Omicron a kasashe da dama tun lokacin da aka fara ba da rahoton cutar ga hukumar lafiya ta Duniya (WHO) a Afirka ta Kudu a makon da ya gabata, wanda ya haifar da rufe kan iyaka da hana zirga-zirga.
Sanarwar ta Najeriya ta zo ne a daidai lokacin da shugaban kasar Afirka ta Kudu Cyril Ramaphosa ya ziyarci Abuja yayin wani rangadin da ya kai a yammacin Afirka inda ya yi kira da a ba da hadin kai kan hana tafiye-tafiye sai “mai amfani”.
Shugaban cibiyar yaki da cututtuka masu yaduwa ta Najeriya, Ifedayo Adetifa ya ce “A yanzu haka an gano kuma an tabbatar da bullar cutar ta farko a Najeriya na B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2, wanda yanzu ake kira da Omicron variant.”
“Omicron ya yadu a duniya… Saboda haka, lamari ne na lokacin da ba haka ake so ba, za mu gano inda abun ya samo asali,” in ji shi.
Babban daraktan kula da lafiya na Ghana, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, ya ce an gano cutar ne a filin jirgin saman Accra, wanda akasari ya fito daga Afirka ta Kudu da Najeriya.
“Abun farin ciki shi ne cewa a gwajin da aka yi a cikin al’umma ya zuwa yanzu, ba mu ga wani Omicron a cikin al’ummar Ghana ba,” in ji shi a yayin kaddamar da yakin neman zabe.
“Amma haɗarin shine idan wani yana da Omicron, kuma yana yawo, ba za a same shi a filin jirgin sama ba.”
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