Posted on 11/28/2021 2:55:36 PM PST by House Atreides
Canadian officials announced Sunday that the omicron variant of Covid-19 has reached North America, with two cases appearing in the province of Ontario.
A joint statement by top Ontario health officials Christine Elliott and Kieran Moore said two people who had recently been in Nigeria have tested positive for the variant.
Contact tracing was being conducted to determine whether others in the country might be positive.
The health officials said their strategy is to stop as many omicron cases as possible from entering Canada.
"We continue to urge the federal government to take the necessary steps to mandate point-of-arrival testing for all travellers irrespective of where they’re coming from to further protect against the spread of this new variant," the pair said.
Ontario has focused rapid Covid-19 testing on travelers who have been to South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, according to the statement.
On Saturday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said told “Weekend TODAY” on Saturday that the variant could already be in the United States.
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The standard PCR test looks for a positive measurement of 3 genes. One is the S gene and it is negative in Omicron. So the standard PCR test that finds 2 genes positive and S negative is indeed a Positive for Covid and Positive for Omicron variant of Covid.
Delta required genomic sequencing to identify. Omicron will show itself as above, but as a general thing, genomic sequencing will follow for confirmation.
The numbers numb nuts are entering the building, their math will be used to falsely count the dead
“How do they know what variant these people are testing positive for?”
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The COVID-19 positive test swab (or other positive tested material such as spit) needs to be sent off for genetic sequencing. This is normally done by relatively small random sampling of COVID-19 positive tests but I’m guessing they’ll be doing 100% genetic sequencing for positive tests of people recently returned from Southern Africa or people who were exposed to recent Africa returnees or people confirmed infected with the Omicron variant.
Lol!!!
OK, nobody breathe.
ONLY 4 people are sick in South Africa who were vaxxed, and they all have mild symptoms. That is the ONLY function of vaccines, to reduce chances of serious symptoms. My daughter returned from S.A. today as a matter of fact, and she and her boy friend never got sick with covid there. Both are vaxxed.
Hahaha I am 1 step ahead of the gov’t. I already had the booster a week ago, and it was free. Thank you all tax payers.
It’s a secret.
Oh, you didn’t pay money, but it isn’t free…
Good. Let it ride.
Let me know when they get to omega.
Is it really that uncommon to have a new variant of a flu/cold family of viruses? Is there really a “vaccine” against any of them (without changing the meaning of the word “vaccine”)?
We’re literally chasing and tracking the common cold at this point.
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