Although transmission is high, country officials said the hospitalisation rates are lower than previous variants
The government also allowed licensed alcohol shops to operate beyond 11pm in line with their normal licence conditions.-19 alert levels. It had been one of the first countries in the world to detect the new highly-infectious Omicron variant.
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