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Will California, Bay Area impose new restrictions due to omicron? - SFGate
Dec 02, 2021 50 secs
Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that there's no plan to introduce new restrictions or a lockdown after the first U.S.

case of the omicron COVID-19 variant was identified on Wednesday in San Francisco.

“There’s more panic than information around this variant,” Newsom said at a press conference following the announcement of the case.

The sentiment was echoed in San Francisco at a Wednesday press conference with city officials.

Eight Bay Area counties introduced an indoor mask mandate in August in response to the surge in cases related to the Delta variant.

With the arrival of the omicron variant, some have wondered if Marin would reintroduce the mask mandate.

A confirmed case of the #Omicron variant is in #CA.

Get the facts about the Omicron variant here: https://t.co/5FQPHiiUX2 pic.twitter.com/xgtQmensMW.

State and federal officials announced Wednesday the first case of the omicron variant in the United States was identified in a San Francisco resident who had returned from South Africa on Nov.

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