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After a subdued New Year’s Eve, authorities are seeking to contain the spread of Omicron as schools and workplaces reopen

The highly contagious Omicron variant, which contains a number of mutations, has fuelled an end-of-year global pandemic resurgence.

There are emergency room equivalent. >> reporter: maybe so, but the airline's top medical adviser warns with omicron's high transmissibility, airline passengers are two, even three times more likely to catch the virus than wit d. t abk nmen long lines of covid test takers include the holiday's hosting families. >> family coming in from california. we're all vaccinated, but we just want to be double safe. >> reporter: most travelers, roughly 100 million people, will drive at least 50 miles. nationally, average gas prices run high-- $3.29 a gallon, more than $1 above last year, the highest holid...