Sixty-nine percent of Covid-19 positive people have been infected with the Omicron variant in Dhaka city during the first two weeks of this month, according to icddr,b .

Omicron was identified in 260, out of 379 samples positive for Covid-19 in icddr,b lab during the period, icddr'b revealed in a survey recently (January 20).

Complete sequencing analysis suggests that at least three different sub-types of the Omicron variant have been circulating in Dhaka, the survey added.