Covid news live: New York state detects five cases of Omicron variant as new US air travel rules loom

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The Omicron variant is now in four US states, including New York; US will require international air travellers to show a negative Covid test within a day of travel from Monday

Multiple cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, health officials said Thursday, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota. In addition to the conventioneer, health officials said tests showed five other people recently infected with Covid-19 had the variant, the Associated Press reports.

 

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