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New Zealand reports first Omicron case in Christchurch border facility

FILE PHOTO: New Zealand's Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield attends a news conference on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Wellington, New Zealand, February 17, 2021. Picture taken February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Praveen Menon

New Zealand reported its first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 at a state-run isolation facility in Christchurch, the Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said on Thursday.

The infected person came to New Zealand from Germany via Dubai, he said.

(Reporting by Praveen Menon; Editing by Christopher Cushing)

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