TUNIS, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia has detected the country's first case of new coronavirus variant EG.5, said a Tunisian official on Tuesday.
The infection was found in an infant following genome sequencing at Charles Nicolle Hospital in the capital Tunis, the official news agency Tunis Afrique Presse reported, citing Hechmi Louzir, a member of Tunisia's Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus.
