State health officials in Colorado announced Tuesday they had identified the first U.S. confirmed case. Fast spreading COVID-19 variant First identified in the United Kingdom. This strain, which is considered to be more contagious, has been linked to an increase in cases in Britain and has spread to many other countries around the world.
Colorado officials said the case was identified by a state public health laboratory in a 20-year-old man with “no history of travel.” The disease has also been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to state health officials.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is aware of the first report of a U.S. case involving a UK variant of Colorado,” CDC spokeswoman Belsi Gonzalez said in an email.
“In addition to the cases reported in Colorado, we expect to see additional cases in the coming days,” Gonzalez said.
Public and private labs around the country have stepped up sequential efforts to find a UK variant called B.1.1.7. Public health officials in the UK have warned that it appears to be more transmissible than other varieties of COVID-19.
Jill Hanskar Ryan, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, said Colorado was the first in the nation to discover this type.
Public health laboratories routinely identify types of coronavirus in Covid-19 patients, although many mutations in the virus do not affect how it spreads or the symptoms it causes.
Colorado health officials said they were looking for a personal case contact, although they added that the person is currently “alone” and “no close contacts have been found yet.”
On Monday, the Trump administration Imposed For travelers from the UK to the U.S. New requirement to test negative for COVID-19 before flying
U.S. health officials have repeatedly warned that this variant is possible Already moving hereHowever, no case has yet been identified in public health laboratories. Unlike the UK, the USA has made up only a small percentage of the Covid-1 cases, respectively, so it is possible to find variants here.
Reports of a new UK variant came out earlier this month, with the CDC saying only 51,000 of the 17 million cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have been indexed.
Preliminary results released by researchers in the UK this week show that the COVID-19 variant is more transmissible, but not more lethal. It also seems to not lead to further hospitalization, or increase the likelihood of reassessment.
Both Pfizer and Moderna have said they believe their COVID-19 vaccine will also provide protection against B.1.1.7, saying they frequently test their shots against new virus types.
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