Officials are urging caution, not panic, after New York has been added to the growing list of states with confirmed cases of the COVID-19 omicron variant.
Those states include Minnesota, where a man is believed to have contracted the variant of COVID-19 during a visit last month to the Javits Center in Manhattan.
And now NYS officials have revealed five other people in the NYC metro area have also tested positive for omicron.
The other four are in New York City. All of the cases are said to be mild.
As for that first case linked to NYC, the man from Minnesota, authorities say he was attending a massive anime convention between November 18 and 22.
Vaccination and masks were required – but the convention was packed, with more than 50,000 attendees.
“It honestly felt like normalcy,” said attendee Anna Caroom. “Like, omg, maybe we’re done! A lot of us go home to places where people aren’t totally vaccinated, and that was more of the concern.”
