The fully vaccinated Georgia resident was in her home state for two days between arriving from South Africa and travelling onward to New Jersey, health officials in both states said. Much remains unknown about omicron, including whether it is more contagious, as some health authorities suspect, whether it can thwart vaccines and whether it makes people as sick as the original strain.Ī woman who recently travelled from South Africa became both New Jersey and Georgia's first confirmed case after seeking care for moderate symptoms at an emergency room. Authorities have urged anyone who attended the conference to get tested for COVID-19 and wear a mask in public. One of the known cases involved a man from Minnesota who was among 50,000 people who attended a three-day anime festival in New York City in November.

New York's omicron cases so far appear to be unrelated, Hochul said. Brian Benjamin said Wednesday the state would send 13 National Guard teams to the western New York county, where County Executive Adam Bello has declared a state of emergency. Governor Kathy Hochul in recent days has authorized the Health Department to limit nonessential, non-urgent procedures at hospitals close to running out of beds and deployed National Guard teams to relieve healthcare workers at facilities dealing with staffing issues and surging caseloads.įifteen members of the National Guard arrived at Monroe Community Hospital in Rochester on Saturday, WROC reported. The number of people testing positive statewide each day for the virus has doubled in the last 30 days. The arrival of omicron comes as hospitals statewide continue to strain under a surge in coronavirus cases, most traced to the delta variant, along with staffing shortages. In New York, seven of the cases have been found in New York City, once a global epicentre of the pandemic, and the other in Suffolk County.

The variant also has been detected in Nebraska, Minnesota, California, Hawaii, Colorado and Utah. The number of states finding the variant is growing as well, with authorities in New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Maryland reporting their first confirmed cases Friday, and Missouri reporting its first presumed case. The omicron variant is here, and as anticipated we are seeing the beginning of community spread,' state Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said in a news release. New York announced three more cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the number of state cases linked to the new variant to eight.

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