Officials refuse to say where an Omicron patient was connected while on route to the United States!!!

Officials from the state and federal governments are refusing to say where the first U.S. patient diagnosed with the Omicron strain of the coronavirus traveled en way to California from South Africa, where the virus is thought to have been transmitted.

The White House said on Wednesday that the first Omicron variant case had been discovered in San Francisco in a South African visitor aged 18 to 49 years old. The announcement appeared to back up President Joe Biden's decision to impose a travel ban on South Africa and seven other African countries just days before.

There are no direct flights from South Africa to California, implying that the person had to connect through another airport, where he or she may have exposed others to the virus or, similarly, where he or she may have been affected.

The White House did not indicate where the tourist had linked through or how long they had spent there, and reporters did not inquire. The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy piece that featured numerous new details but left out the linking point.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the California Department of Public Health were contacted by Breitbart News (CDPH). The CDC addressed questions to the CDPH, which said it "cannot furnish or validate this information because of patient confidentiality."

According to searches on travel websites, the passenger may have connected in any number of cities in Europe, the Middle East, or the United States' East Coast.

Since then, numerous other Omicron variant cases have been discovered in the United States, some of which did not need travel.

South Africa has protested the travel ban as overly harsh and hasty, calling it “health apartheid.” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made similar remarks, calling Biden’s policy and similar policies elsewhere “travel apartheid.”