The United States confirmed this Wednesday (1st) its first case of Covid-19 with the omicron variant, sequenced last week by scientists in South Africa.
According to information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Anthony Fauci, a White House adviser and one of the country’s most respected infectious diseases, the infected patient lives in California, but returned from a trip from South Africa last year. the 22nd and received a diagnosis of Covid-19 on Monday (29).
He was fully vaccinated and had only mild symptoms from which he is already recovering. The CDC also said that people who had close contact with this patient were identified and subjected to virus detection tests — which came back negative.
In a press conference on Wednesday, Fauci repeated what he had been telling the American press: the identification of the omicron in the US was inevitable and just a matter of time.
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