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Certainly raised concern here in connecticut and throughout the country. here in connecticut we have seen an increase in cases in the community predominantly delta variant at this point. we're also seeing an increase in hospitalizations but not quite at the rate that we've seen in the past. i think a lot of that is protection from the vaccine, highly vaccinated state here. we're optimistic that will hold true but here in connecticut also, we've been really ramping up our capacity to do genomic sequencing to identify new variants including omicron so that's really important in the future in ord...

Carolina. >> 10,000 square feet covid processing. >> reporter: the lab sequences samples taken in more than 40 states. >> 30,000 per day is how many we're processing right now so that is about a hundred thousand 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 we are sequencing every positive that we get. >> genomic sequencing complicated testing that reveals the precise lineage of the virus is the only way to identify new covid-19 va...

Do you agree with that? >> yes, i do, christine. we're projecting to do a little over a million tests a day. the amount of tests a country should do, no one has a specific number. it's not based on your population size. it's actually based on the level of the epidemic or outbreak in your particular country. so given the burden of coronavirus prevalence that we have, we should be doing even more tests. i want to applaud that improvement, but there is further for us to go. and further genomic sequencing of coronavirus variants. >> it feels like from the very beginning of this we never quite got ...

At least six cases of Covid-19 have been detected after screening of over 3,000 passengers from flights arriving in India from "at risk" countries.

And answer questions. he does have a hard out a little bit after two, so we will get to as many questions as we possibly can. all turned over to dr. fauci. >> thank you very much, john. at some of you may have heard, california and san francisco department of public health and the cdc have confirmed that a recent case of covid-19 among an individual in california was caused by the omicron variant. genomic sequencing was conducted at the university of california in san francisco and at the sequence was confirmed at the cdc as being consistent with the omicron variant. there's a lot of questions...