The Omicron variant of the coronavirus was detected in New York City's wastewater days before it was officially announced in South Africa and a week before the first case was confirmed in the United States, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A team of US researchers has detected at least four "cryptic" variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in samples of wastewater from New York City s public sewer system.Marc Johnson, Professor of molecular microbiology .
A cluster of coronavirus lineages with unknown origins has popped up in the New York City sewers, raising questions about whether and how new variants are evolving.
At least 4 cryptic variants of Covid-19 discovered in New York wastewater, study says THIS - Mutations could be linked to possible animal origins, says study s co-corresponding author Marc Johnson.