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COVID-19 vaccination being administered at the March 9 NH Motor Speedway Super Site event. (COURTESY PHOTO)

CONCORD — With the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations occurring since the start of the pandemic, now at 403, top state Health and Human Services staff held their regular call with public health-care providers Thursday to focus on the new Omicron variant and concern for transmission.

They predicted international travel will be disrupted by Omicron, which was found in California on Wednesday and Minnesota on Thursday, and together with the Delta variant, there is likely a new incentive to get more people vaccinated as those who are unvaccinated are more likely to have more adverse outcomes.

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