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New Covid-19 strain found in Florida man with no travel history
Colorado site tester Kellen Taylor administers a Covid test at Echo Park Stadium in Parker, Colorado. — AFP
Miami - It comes after reports in recent days of two individual cases of the UK strain of Covid-19 discovered in Colorado and California.
Florida health authorities reported late on Thursday finding evidence of the latest US case of the new and apparently more contagious coronavirus strain first seen in England, saying it was detected in a man with no recent travel history.
The case, disclosed in a Florida Health Department statement tweeted on its HealthyFla site, comes after reports in recent days of two individual cases of the UK strain of Covid-19 discovered in Colorado and California.
Florida’s health statement said the new virus variant was detected in a man in his 20s in Martin County, which abuts the Atlantic Coast above densely populated South Florida. It said its experts were working with the Atlanta-based federal Centers for Disease Control on investigating the case.
The health department did not give further details, such as releasing the man’s medical condition or how the strain was detected.
California on Wednesday announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new virus strain. The announcement came 24 hours after word of the first reported US variant infection, which emerged in Colorado — in a Colorado National Guardsman who had been sent to help out at a nursing home struggling with an outbreak.
Scientists in the UK believe the variant is more contagious than previously identified strains. The cases have triggered questions about how the version circulating in England arrived in the US and whether it is too late to stop it now, with top experts saying it is probably already spreading elsewhere in the United States.
The Florida Health Department also tweeted late Thursday that experts anticipate little to no impact on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccinations being rolled out in a state grappling with overwhelming demand for the vaccines from its large senior population.
Also on Thursday, state officials reported the highest daily jump in Covid-19 cases ever detected in Florida. The state’s Department of Health reported 17,192 new cases on the last day of 2020 and 133 new deaths, raising the toll to 21,857.
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