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Hours after India fourth Omicron case was detected in Mumbai Dombivli, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said that the authorities are alert about people return

Hours after India fourth Omicron case was detected in Mumbai Dombivli, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said that the authorities are alert about people return

Medical laboratories. >> 10,000 square feet covid processing. >> reporter: theyre taking samples from more than 40 states. >> 30,000 per day is how many were processing right now. thats about 100,000 or so per week. >> reporter: labs like this are key in detecting the omicron variant in the united states because of what they do after identifying a positive test. >> as of right now we are at the point where were sequencing every positive that we get. p p >> jegenomic sequences is the oy way to id...

Body. but, by then he had released it to the funeral home. >> so, heres an easy solution you go back to the body and you take a second look. >> would love to. when we got the phone call on tuesday that she had a lethal level of cyanide in her blood i called immediately the funeral home and she had already been cremated. >> but the m.e still had samples of autumns blood. the toxicology report that its own test for cyanide. they added a simple solution to the blood, if cyanide was present in the s...

State to be able to test samples of covid positive cases to determine whether or not they do contain the new variant. were working to make sure that vaccines are available to anybody who wants a vaccine and also working to make sure we make it easier for people to get a test so they can determine whether or not they may have the new variant or just have the delta variant, whatever the case may be but also we in anticipation of a potential increase in hospitalizations, were working to surge more ...

Actually sequencing that library. >> reporter: the world health organization and the cdc declared omicron a variant of concern after it was flagged by scientists in south africa. a mutation causes a peculiar test israel called an s gene dropout. >> n gene is the blue curve and the green curve is the s gene. >> it would normally up there with them? >> yeah. >> reporter: making a suspicious case easy to spot for expedited sequencing. >> we have about six samples that have that signature s gene dro...

Healthca care providers across entire state to be able to test samples of covid-positive cases to determine whether or not they do contain new variant. were working to make sure that vaccines are available to anybody who wants a vaccine and also working to make sure that we make it easier for people to get a test so they can determine whether or not they may have the new variant or just have the delta variant, whatever case may be.ma but also we, in anticipation of a potential increase many hosp...

Of impact omicron could have on the u.s. they agree knowledge is power. >> every time it transmits from a person to another person, its another chance for the virus to mutate and change into something different. being able to monitor it really highlights the importance of testing, right, because without the testing you really have no base line to understand whats going on. >> reporter: one of those so-called suspicious samples did wrap up sequencing and it turned out it was not the omicron varia...

>> reporter: the variant has more than 50 mutations, over 30 in the spike protein, making it easier to attach itself to human cells. >> its more of a frankenstein than others, but its always something new. i mean, the virus keeps surprising us. >> reporter: now they are collaborating with other scientists to determine if the variant blunts vaccine immunity. this lab has received multiple requests for samples of omicron, which have been packed to be shipped off to other research institutes around...

0 thats jared peck along with charlie walter. well see you back here t 6:00. captioning sponsored by cbs >> yuccas: tonight, captured and charged. the parents of the accused michigan school shooter now held on a half a million dollars bond each after their overnight arrest, while a crowd attending a vigil for the victims erupts in panic. >> reporter: im michael george in pontiac, michigan. the parents of the accused oxford school shooter are now behind bars. how they were found and what happened...