Colorado first case of Covid variant that emerged just lately in UK (Representational)
Washington:
The US state of Colorado has recorded what’s reportedly America’s first case of the significantly infectious coronavirus variant that emerged just lately in Britain, the governor mentioned Tuesday.
“Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK,” state governor Jared Polis tweeted.
He connected an official assertion from his workplace and state well being officers that mentioned the person is a “male in his 20s who is currently in isolation in Elbert County and has no travel history.”
The particular person had no shut contacts, the assertion mentioned, however the scenario will proceed to be monitored “very closely” and authorities are working to determine different potential instances by contact tracing.
Today we found Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the identical variant found within the UK.
The well being and security of Coloradans is our prime precedence and we are going to monitor this case, in addition to all COVID-19 indicators, very carefully. pic.twitter.com/fjyq7QhzBi
— Governor Jared Polis (@GovofCO) December 29, 2020
The Washington Post reported that the Colorado case is the primary recognized an infection of the variant virus to be recorded within the United States. The first two variant instances on the North American continent had been found in Canada over the weekend.
Fears have been raised by the brand new pressure of Covid-19, which specialists say is probably extra transmissible.
More than 3,000 instances of the variant have already been reported within the UK and dozens of nations in Europe and world wide, based on the EU well being company ECDC.
In South Africa, greater than 300 instances of one other variant have been recorded. Three instances of that pressure variant have been confirmed in Europe — two within the UK and one in Finland — however all three have been related to folks coming back from South Africa.
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