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ATLANTA – A Georgia nonmigratory who was successful New Jersey past week was identified arsenic the archetypal nonmigratory of the authorities to trial affirmative for the omicron variant, the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) announced Friday.

On Sunday, DPH announced the archetypal lawsuit of the highly mutated COVID-19 variant was detected by a nonmigratory presently successful the state.

The DPH said the idiosyncratic successful New Jersey precocious traveled from South Africa and was successful Georgia for 2 days earlier traveling connected to New Jersey wherever the investigating and sequencing were done.

DPH said Friday the idiosyncratic is afloat vaccinated and is isolated successful New Jersey.

Contact tracing is underway determination and successful Georgia to place adjacent contacts astatine hazard of infection.

The idiosyncratic identified successful metro Atlanta connected Sunday precocious traveled from South Africa and developed mild symptoms earlier investigating affirmative for COVID-19, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Genomic sequencing confirmed the beingness of the omicron variant.

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“Vaccination and boosters are cardinal to preventing further transmission of COVID-19 and assistance forestall caller variants similar Omicron from emerging,” said Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health. “Only 51% of Georgians are afloat vaccinated and of those individuals little than 20% person received booster doses.”

Studies amusement aft getting vaccinated against COVID-19, extortion against the microorganism and the quality to forestall corruption with variants whitethorn alteration implicit time. Early information from South Africa suggest accrued transmissibility of the Omicron variant, and scientists successful the United States and astir the satellite are urgently examining vaccine effectiveness related to this variant, according to DPH.

To find a COVID-19 vaccine oregon COVID-19 investigating determination successful Georgia log connected to dph.ga.gov.

For updates connected COVID-19 successful Georgia, travel @GaDPH and @GovKemp connected Twitter and @GaDPH and @GovKemp connected Facebook.

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