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    California confirms nation’s first omicron variant case

    by Luke Money, Rong-Gong Lin II and Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Dec 01, 2021 5 minutes

    SAN FRANCISCO — The first U.S. case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been confirmed in San Francisco, putting California once again at the center of the nation’s pandemic response.

    Officials said the infected individual had returned home from South Africa on Nov. 22. A few days after arriving, the person began to feel ill and got tested.

    On Monday, the result came back positive, and the specimen was subsequently sequenced, at which point it was determined that the case was indeed the work of the latest named coronavirus strain.

    The person was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms that did not require hospitalization. Officials said the individual’s condition was improving as of Wednesday.

    There are no signs yet of any larger outbreak in the San Francisco

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