Seven instances extra COVID-19 instances have been recognized between December eleventh and January seventh, with a small decline final week, in response to knowledge launched by the Unit of Epidemiological Surveillance, on Tuesday. On the identical time, the Omicron variant appears to have prevailed in the neighborhood, by 93.9% throughout the first week of this yr and 86% between 8-14 January.
On 11-17 December, the instances have been simply 4,145. 4 weeks later, 1-7/1 the instances exploded to twenty-eight,744 and the week after that they dropped to 21,686.
Age teams 0-5 and 6-11 are the one ones that continued to report a rise in instances throughout the week 8-14 January. Throughout this week, 5,166 instances have been detected amongst minors.
Nicosia had the best variety of instances on week 8-14/1, in all age teams.
The Omicron variant was recognized in 166 out of 192 instances verified by sequencing on Friday 14th January, a price of 86%.
The earlier week (31/12-8/1) the Omicron variant was recognized on 92 out of 99 instances (93.9%), whereas the Delta variant was present in 6 instances. The weeks earlier than, 269 variants have been verified by sequencing in Cyprus.
Out of 190 instances with sequencing outcomes, 8 Omicron and 6 Delta instances have been, or nonetheless are, hospitalised.
In keeping with the information, there have been 192 reinfections recognized throughout the week 8-14 January.