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Before the dutch authorities panicked over two flights from south africa carrying infected passengers. labs in several countries are now combing through samples collected not just in recent days but over the past month. scientists say it will take weeks to get a clearer picture of the variant�*s prevalence and how much protection the current vaccines will offer against it. because in the beginning you have small numbers and biases and who is actually been found out as someone who carries overg...

How to respond to it. so what he said is how theyre testing down in south africa is what they are doing this san francisco county that helped them identify this variant very quickly after someone came back and reported being ill and also gave their travel history as well! dr. el-sayed, it was comforting to hear the patient has mild symptoms and has now recovered. what did you take away from the press conference we just heard? >> thats really good news. i want to go back to what the last individu...

Samples taken in the netherlands, for example, it was already present for ten days before that. we know more and more as companies are expanding their testing and genomic surveillance. the question is really the same whether its the -- >> doctor, i dont mean to interrupt but our own chief medical adviser is at the podium. we have to cut in. here is dr. fauci. >> the sequence was confirmed at the cdc as being consistent with the omicron variant. i know there are a lot of questions. here is what w...

Confirms to cnn that they will start -- they plan to start taking random samples of the tests here to now identify variants with those tests. so lets talk about exactly how this will work. they will take weekly random samples, on average 300 to 500 of tests where covid-19 is detected and that will go to a lab where they will do sequencing to identify those variants, they started this random sampling last week. theyre still awaiting the first set of test results, but lets be clear on what the dif...

Only a matter of time before omicron would be identified here in the united states. and its perhaps unsurprising that california now has identified the first case, because california is home to some of the most robust virus sequencing programs in the world. one happens to be in san francisco. the other one in san diego, where i was yesterday. i was given a tour of their sequencing labs. at the time they were telling me that primarily they were sequencing the delta variant. that is still the domi...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. youre his chief medical adviser. do you think thats something the country should adopt? >> im not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. lets get them vaccinated, lets get the people who are vaccinated boosted, lets get the children vaccinated. thats where we want to go as opposed...

The health authorities in Andhra Pradesh are sending 15 per cent of Covid-19 positive samples for genome sequencing in view of the new variant Omicron, which has been reported in some countries.

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Invested in the genotyping and were one of the top states in terms of the percentage of samples that are geno typed. so theres a lot of work happening with partners on the ground and that includes surveillance efforts related to omicron, so i think theres a lot there. but i will say your broader question is a good one. look, south africa, botswana, these countries, these global colleagues did a service to humankind by finding this variant, right? absolutely. and yet we have to be asking the ques...

Variant but it is indicative of it. however, whole genome sequencing of these positive samples has now confirmed that they are indeed the omicron variant. none of these individuals as far as we know has any recent travel history to all known links with others who have travelled to the countries in southern africa where the variant was originally detected. however, while they contact tracing exercise is still ongoing, health protection teams have established that all nine cases are linked. they a...