Federal and state health officials are monitoring a new COVID variant. Known as BA.2, this strain appears to be a further mutation of the BA.1, or omicron, variant.
Even as New Jersey seems to be coming out of this latest COVID outbreak powered by the omicron variant, many believe this latest wave is far from the last.
Even with the presence of the new omicron COVID variant now confirmed in New Jersey, it's the delta variant that is fueling the current surge in new cases.