Low Concentrations Of Omicron COVID-19 Variant Found In Sacramento County Sewage Sample

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — While nary authoritative cases of the omicron COVID-19 variant person been recovered successful Sacramento County conscionable yet, nationalist wellness leaders corroborate that it has been detected successful sewage samples.

Sacramento County Public Health says they were alerted past week astir the findings.

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Low concentrations of the HV69-70 mutation – which officials accidental is being utilized to people the omicron variant – were contiguous successful the sample, which was collected backmost connected Nov. 30.

County officials accidental wastewater surveillance has been an important instrumentality successful helping place the COVID variants and however they’ve spread.

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“We proceed with different tools, including identifying specimens to prioritize for full genome sequencing, arsenic we cannot perchance series EVERY trial result,” nationalist wellness officials said successful a statement.

California is 1 of respective states person had a confirmed lawsuit of the omicron COVID-19 variant. That archetypal authoritative lawsuit was recovered successful the San Francisco area.

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Public wellness leaders person been connected precocious alert owed to the omicron strain’s evident absorption to existing vaccines and its imaginable to origin a caller question of infections.

CBS13 Staff