South Africa reported another major increase in new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, with more than 11,500 daily cases and a 22% test positivity rate.
The rate of vaccination in South Africa had been falling for several weeks but has begun to tick upward again with the news of the Omicron variant, the BBC reported. More than 150,000 shots were given within the last 24 hours, including nearly 9,000 booster shots.Several more cases of the Omicron variant were reported in the U.S. on Thursday, including five people in New York and new cases in California, Colorado, Hawaii, and Minnesota, accordingU.S.
The vaccinated man from Minnesota had recently traveled to the Anime NYC 2021 convention at the Javits Center, which hosted 53,000 attendees Nov. 19-21. He had mild symptoms on Nov. 22 and got tested on Nov. 24. His symptoms have now cleared up. New York officials have encouraged convention attendees to get tested. The five Omicron cases confirmed in the state appeared to be unrelated to the convention, accordingThe five cases were a woman in Suffolk County who recently returned from South Africa, two residents in Queens, one resident in Brooklyn, and another person in New York City who traveled recently. The cases appear to be unrelated to each other as well.
In Colorado, the state’s first Omicron case was detected in a fully vaccinated resident who had recently returned from southern Africa for tourism, accordingIn California, a second Omicron case was detected in Los Angeles in a fully vaccinated resident who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22, according. The person has mild symptoms and is isolating at home. The first case in California was reported in San Francisco on Wednesday.
An Oahu resident with no history of travel was the first Omicron case in Hawaii. The person had previously contracted COVID-19 but wasn’t vaccinated and has moderate symptoms.
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