The new Omicron variant was identified in more than a dozen people in at least 10 states, early evidence of its presence across the U.S.
While some of the people in the U.S. who have contracted the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 had recently traveled to southern Africa, where it was first identified last week, at least two states reported community spread of the new variant. States to report Omicron cases span the country from Hawaii to California and New York.
