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Several experts are of the opinion that XBB 1.16 is behind the sudden rise in COVID infection

Hours. >> reporter: steph, nomi says in a five-day period in december they went from seeing virtually none of the positive tests linked to omicron to more than 90% of them linked to rom cron. there's no live virus in here, they have chemicals in the solution of the vial that as soon as the covid sample is introduced deactivates the virus so it's safer for everyone as they're going through right now at a strenuous rate and trying to figure out if folks are positive. increasingly right now it's about 30% to 35% of all the samples right now that are coming back positive. >> scott, i want to ask y...

Over, then it goes to one of those containers, it's in there, logged and digitized into the system, the lab technicians take out a small portion of that sample, this is call sloquatting to extract the rna from the covid sample to test to see if it's positive. the genomic sequencing doesn't happen here, that takes place offsite. i spoke with the co-founder joshua walker about what role they're playing right now in public health. here is what he had to say. >> for us it's been even from the beginning we felt that part of testing, accessibility to testing, was both clinical which is you're sympto...

According to health department officials, they received a list of over 395 passengers who returned from various countries including many 'at risk' ones out of which samples of over 220 passengers have been taken.