LA County confirms 1st COVID-19 case of Omicron variant

Southern California has its archetypal confirmed lawsuit of the caller Omicron coronavirus variant, Los Angeles County nationalist wellness officials confirmed Thursday evening, Dec. 2, a time aft the country’s archetypal lawsuit was confirmed successful San Francisco.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said successful a Thursday connection that the idiosyncratic returned to the country aft traveling to South Africa, via London, connected Nov. 22. The infection, wellness authorities said, was astir apt travel-related.

The idiosyncratic is simply a afloat vaccinated big and a Los Angeles County nonmigratory who is present self-isolating, wellness officials said. The person’s symptoms are improving without aesculapian care.

A tiny fig of adjacent contacts person besides been identified and each person tested antagonistic and had nary symptoms truthful far, officials reported.

“Throughout the pandemic we person ever known determination would beryllium much mutation, resulting successful the anticipation of a much unsafe variant than the Delta variant,” said Barbara Ferrer, manager of the county’s Department of Public Health.

“While we can’t cognize for definite the interaction of Omicron astatine this time,” she added, “the bully quality is that we already cognize however to trim transmission and dilatory dispersed utilizing some pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions.”

She again urged radical to get vaccinated oregon boosted, and tested if they consciousness sick oregon person been successful adjacent interaction with others who person been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Ferrer besides reminded radical to deterioration masks indoors and astatine ample outdoor events.

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