Epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds confirmed this on Saturday during the Ministry of Health’s virtual Covid-19 update.
On Friday, the ministry reported 28 new cases of the Omicron variant, bringing the total number of the Omicron variant to 56.
Dr Hinds said, “As we are seeing increasing proportions of the new cases having no travel history that indicates that there are chains of community transmission.”
He added that what is being observed was possibly a fraction of what was actually occurring in communities.
Dr Hinds said, “The evidence suggests that there is community transmission and once we see that knowing how Omicron behaves basically we are now contending with community spread and regulations will need to be adhered to mitigate that impact.”
He added, “We do want to advise additional caution for the entire population at this time as we now have to deal with this more transmissible variant.”
