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The Omicron Covid-19 variant is now the most dominant strain in the US accounting for over 73 of new coronavirus cases less than three weeks after the first was reported according to estimates. Marco Rubio on Friday criticized the public response to the highly-transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant saying that fears emanating from the surge in new cases amounted to irrational.

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It was first discovered in India.

. The Delta variant was named on 31 May 2021 and had spread to over 179 countries by 22 November 2021. It was first detected in India in late 2020. The omicron variant has overtaken delta as the dominant coronavirus variant in the United States.

Descendant of lineage B1617 which also includes the Kappa variant under investigation it was first discovered in October 2020 and has since spread internationally. The Delta variant B16172 is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes COVID-19. The Delta variant also known as B16172 G452RV3 21A or 21AS478K is a globally dominant variant that spread to at least 185 countries.

For samples of SARS-CoV-2 collected between January 30 and February 12 2022 from New York State that are sequenced and entered into Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data GISAID 07 were the Delta variant compared to. As of Friday more than 73 percent of new cases in the country were caused by omicron according.

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