World News | Polish Youth is First Known Omicron Case in Mainland China

Warsaw, Dec 14 (AP) Poland's Health ministry said Tuesday that a Polish teenager who flew from Warsaw to China last week is continental China's first person to test positive for the omicron variant of COVID-19.

Ministry spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz said the teenager, who traveled with her mother, was hospitalised in isolation. She shows no symptoms of illness.

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Andrusiewicz said she tested negative before leaving Warsaw Dec. 6, but a test after arrival in China showed infection with the omicron, which was confirmed by a second test, Dec.13.

According to China's “Global Times” newspaper, the teenager is in Tianjin.

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One crew member of the Polish LOT airlines plane that she travelled on tested positive for COVID-19, but there was no information as to the variant, Andrusiewicz said.

The plane returned empty to Poland, according to Polish Radio reporter in Beijing.

Hong Kong has reported a few omicron cases. (AP)

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