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I'm Margaret Brennan and this week on Face the Nation countries are racing to contain a new COVID strain and the US is on high alert as experts warn it's likely already here.

With much of the US now vaccinated experts warn it's likely already here.

With much of the US now vaccinated,

Americans seem to enjoy an almost normal holiday.

But the WHO just sounded the alarm about a new concern.

Amicron, a highly mutated COVID variant, is now in more than a dozen countries across the world,

triggering new travel restrictions and sending jitters through a global economy

still on the mend.

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