With the arrival of the omicron variant in Kern County, public health officials are updating county supervisors on plans in place to keep the health care system ready for another potential surge. “As we have expected for the past couple of weeks, we have received our first batch of confirmed cases of omicron here in Kern County as we will report 10 cases of omicron in Kern County as of today,” said Brynn Carrigan, Director of Kern County Public Health.