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Omicron reaches US, contact tracing revved up in some states
Updated On: 05 December, 2021 07:20 AM IST | New York | Agencies
Omicron man attended anime conference with 50,000 footfall; variant found in California, Colorado, Hawaii
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Once a global epicentre of the pandemic, New York has the country’s biggest contact tracing effort. Pic/AFP
The arrival of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus in the US has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow its spread as scientists study how contagious it is and whether it can thwart vaccines. In New York City, officials quickly reached out to a man who tested positive for the variant and had attended an anime conference at a Manhattan convention centre last month along with more than 50,000 people. Five other attendees have also been infected with the Coronavirus, though officials don’t yet know whether it was with the Omicron variant.
“As for what we learned about this conference at the Javits Center and these additional cases, our test and trace team is out there immediately working with each individual who was affected to figure out who else they came in contact with. That contact tracing is absolutely crucial,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Once a global epicentre of the pandemic, New York has the country’s biggest contact-tracing effort. The variant has been detected in a handful of other states so far, including California, Colorado and Hawaii.
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