LOS ANGELES—An unidentified Los Angeles County resident was in isolation Dec. 3, recovering from what was confirmed as the county’s first case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant originally detected in South Africa.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed the case late Thursday afternoon, saying the patient is a person who returned to Los Angeles after traveling to South Africa via London on Nov. 22. Health officials said the infection is “most likely travel-related.”
