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Georgia woman tests positive for omicron variant - WSB Atlanta
Dec 04, 2021 47 secs

ATLANTA — Health officials say a woman from Georgia has tested positive for the omicron variant.

The Georgia Department of Public Health said she is currently in isolation after traveling to New Jersey.

DPH said the person “recently traveled from South Africa and was in Georgia for two days before traveling on to New Jersey where the testing and sequencing were done.”.

The New Jersey Department of Health said the woman has experienced moderate symptoms and is now recovering after receiving care in a North Jersey emergency department.

“Vaccination and boosters are key to preventing further transmission of COVID-19 and help prevent new variants like omicron from emerging,” said Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health.

As comfort over air travel returns, it’s inevitable that new variants like omicron will spread from country to country and state to state, said professor Danielle Ompad, an epidemiologist at New York University’s School of Global Public Health

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