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Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world

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Mary Wilson

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UPDATED ON: NOVEMBER 30, 2021 / 7:38 AM

CBS/AP

Dutch health authorities announced on Tuesday that they found the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in cases dating back as long as 11 days, indicating that it was already spreading in western Europe before the first cases were identified in southern Africa. The RIVM health institute said it found Omicron in samples dating from November 19 and 23.

Those findings predate the positive cases found among passengers who came from South Africa last Friday and were tested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/omicro...-raised/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=142329193
 
the earliest sequence is from Nov09, afaik.
first at cog-uk from Nov20
TUT recorded 55 positive cases between November 16-18.
increase of cases in Gauteng since ca. Nov10
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Machine translation:

https://www.nu.nl/coronavirus/61706...de-zich-medio-november-al-door-nederland.html
The omikron variant of the coronavirus has already spread within the Netherlands in mid-November. One of the two people in the Netherlands who tested positive for the omikron variant at the GGD on 19 and 23 November had not been on a trip shortly before and must therefore have contracted the virus in the Netherlands. The RIVM reported this to NU.nl on Tuesday afternoon.
 
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