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 let's 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. they're still awaiting the first set of test results, but let's be clear on what the difference is here. until now, the tests have only been for diagnosis of covid-19. not taking that additional step to actually identify variants like delta and now omicron. now, they want to make clear that this is, again, random sampling, so you can't just come here and ask to identify that variant, they said that this is fortunate coincidence. they started looking into this during delta and now it is a