Indonesian health authorities are conducting contact tracing after detecting the Southeast Asian country's first case of the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant in the community, Reuters reports.
The first confirmed case was a 37-year-old male who was from the city of Medan and had visited a restaurant in Jakarta's central business district earlier this month, health ministry official Siti Nadia Tarmizi told a news conference.
The man had no recent history of overseas travel or contacts with international travellers, Tarmizi said, adding he was asymptomatic and was in isolation at a Jakarta hospital after he had initially been isolated at home.
