Although information about the prevalence and severity of Omicron is incomplete, the spokesperson said that the effect of this new mutant is not much different from the previous variant and that research is still ongoing to understand more aspects of Omicron.
Khairy said that the data has shown that the single biggest source of imported cases, Omicron or otherwise, was from Saudi Arabia.
Read: Meanwhile, last month, Saudi Arabia temporarily suspended flights to and from an 14 countries in Africa due to concerns over the outbreak of the newly discovered coronavirus strain Omicron.