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First case of omicron variant identified in Michigan in Kent County
Hani Barghouthi
Sarah Rahal
Craig Mauger
The Detroit News
The first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was detected Thursday in a fully vaccinated Kent County resident more than a week after it was first reported in the United States on Dec. 1.
The west Michigan patient tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 3, and genomic sequencing confirmed it was the highly contagious omicron variant and was reported to the state on Thursday, according to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services statement. Vaccine records indicate the Kent County adult was fully vaccinated but had not received a booster dose, according to the state health department's release.
Michigan became at least the 22nd state to report the variant. Omicron was named and designated a variant of concern by the World Health Organization on Nov. 26, about two weeks after it was first detected in Botswana and South Africa...
First case of omicron variant identified in Michigan in Kent County
Hani Barghouthi
Sarah Rahal
Craig Mauger
The Detroit News
The first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was detected Thursday in a fully vaccinated Kent County resident more than a week after it was first reported in the United States on Dec. 1.
The west Michigan patient tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 3, and genomic sequencing confirmed it was the highly contagious omicron variant and was reported to the state on Thursday, according to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services statement. Vaccine records indicate the Kent County adult was fully vaccinated but had not received a booster dose, according to the state health department's release.
Michigan became at least the 22nd state to report the variant. Omicron was named and designated a variant of concern by the World Health Organization on Nov. 26, about two weeks after it was first detected in Botswana and South Africa...