Shawdesh desk:

Eighty-two percent of the Covid patients recently detected in Bangladesh are of the highly contagious Omicron variant while eighteen percent are of Delta variant ones, says a Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) survey.

Vice-Chancellor of the BSMMU Prof M Sharfuddin Ahmed, also the supervisor of Genome sequencing research project, revealed the survey report on Thursday after scrutinizing 937 samples collected from January 9 to February 9.

Fifty-one percent of the patients included in the research were female, including people of the age between nine months’ old to 90 years old.