64 of 150 guests tested positive for Omicron after a high school lunch in Denmark, the latest in a string of spreading events

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More than 1,000 more were potentially exposed after the 27 November event.

A COVID-19 test at O.R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa, one of the first places where Omicron was identified, on November 28, 2021.64 of 150 people tested positive for Omicron after a Christmas lunch, authorities told Insider.It is not yet clear how transmissible Omicron is or whether it causes more severe symptoms.

Sixty-four people tested positive for the Omicron variant after a Christmas lunch attended by 150 people in Denmark, authorities confirmed to Insider. It means that more than a third of attendees came away with the recently-discovered variant after the event on November 27. More than a thousand more "close contacts" or "close contact to close contacts" were also potentially exposed, Andreas Peder Schultz, a spokesperson for the Danish Patient Safety Authority, said in an email Monday.according to the Viborg Folkeblad local newspaperIt was also not immediately clear how severe their symptoms were, or how many of the attendees were vaccinated.

Vaccine policy in Denmark allows children aged 12 and up to receive shots, and some 77% of Danes were fully vaccinated as of December 1,

 

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