The President advisor for health and prevention affairs Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din revealed the reason behind the increase in the number of Coronavirus cases in Egypt , he stressed that the spread of the Omicron variant is the reason behind the increase in the number of cases.
He added during one of the conferences that The fourth wave of the Coronavirus is not over yet, and there is an increase as a result of the presence of a new variant.
The new Omicron version, which was initially discovered in South Africa, has heightened global anxieties because it is thought to be more deadly than the delta variant. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated it as a ‘variant of concern’.