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Two international flight passengers who tested positive to COVID-19 after arriving in Sydney have been confirmed as Australia’s first cases of the new Omicron variant of concern, after urgent genomic sequencing was completed on Sunday.
The pair were passengers on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha which landed at Sydney Airport at about 7pm on Saturday. They have been in isolation in special health accommodation since their arrival.In a statement, NSW Health said the pair were asymptomatic and both fully vaccinated. The other 260 passengers on the flight are now considered close contacts of a COVID-19 case and have been directed by health authorities to isolate.
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