{"id":43264,"date":"2021-12-13T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-reports-its-first-case-of-the-omicron-variant\/"},"modified":"2021-12-14T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:00:38","slug":"new-mexico-reports-its-first-case-of-the-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-reports-its-first-case-of-the-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico reports its first case of the omicron variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE \u2013 The New Mexico Department of Health on Monday announced the state\u2019s first identified case of the COVID-19 omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said the case was identified Sunday and involves a Bernalillo County woman.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified woman reported recent domestic travel to a state with reported cases of omicron, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>They said the woman was seen in a local emergency room and then discharged.<\/p>\n<p>The state health department is currently conducting a thorough case investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The omicron variant has been confirmed in at least 30 states and the District of Columbia as well as more than 60 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona reported its first confirmed case of the omicron variant on Dec. 8 in Yavapai County.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico residents are being told by health officials to get vaccinated and use proven public safety practices including wear masks, avoiding crowds and washing hands frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FE \u2013 The New Mexico Department of Health on Monday announced the state\u2019s first identified case of the COVID-19 omicron variant. Health officials said the case was identified Sunday and involves a Bernalillo County woman. The unidentified woman reported recent domestic travel to a state with reported cases of omicron, according to authorities. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43264"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}