COVID-19 Omicron cluster detected in nursing home in Osaka - Kyodo

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FILE PHOTO: Doctor Toshiaki Minami, director at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, works with his colleague in the operation wing of the hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Takatsuki, Osaka prefecture, Japan May 17, 2021. Picture taken May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Akira Tomoshige
FILE PHOTO: Doctor Toshiaki Minami, director at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, works with his colleague in the operation wing of the hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Takatsuki, Osaka prefecture, Japan May 17, 2021. Picture taken May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Akira Tomoshige

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese officials in the western city of Osaka have confirmed a cluster of people has the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.

The cluster of five people was detected at a nursing home in the city, Kyodo said. They are not the first confirmed cases of Omicron in Japan but Kyodo said it is the country's first suspected cluster.

(Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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