Sixty-one people who traveled from South Africa to the Netherlands have tested positive for COVID-19 and will be tested for the newly discovered COVID variant omicron, The Associated Press reported. COVID-19 LATEST:
Chief medical adviser to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said he"wouldn't be surprised" if the new COVID-19 variant omicron was already in the United States, on NBC Saturday morning.
Two flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town arrived in the Netherlands Friday, just after the Dutch government, along with other countries, imposed a ban on southern African nations with the discovery of omicron, according to the AP. No cases of omicron have been identified in the U.S. to date, but on Friday the WHO classified the new variant as a "variant of concern.”
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