A second case of infection with the British variant of the coronavirus has been identified in Colorado, authorities say.
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Lhe second case of the variant of the coronavirus suspected by health authorities was also found in Elbert County, where the first case of the new variant of the coronavirus in the United States had already been confirmed on Tuesday, according to CNN. The two affected people worked at the same location in Simla, about 130 kilometers from Denver.
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«Variant B.1.1.7»
The day before, the governor of this western state, Jared Polis, had confirmed that “the state laboratory of Colorado was the first in the country” to identify this “variant B.1.1.7” discovered in the United Kingdom .
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The patient carrying the variant, considered to be more contagious than the original strain, is a young man in his twenties “who is currently in isolation in Elbert County and has not traveled,” the officials said in their statement. governor’s services.
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According to studies, this mutation is particularly contagious, which prompted the British authorities to sound the alarm last week, but there is no evidence at this stage that it leads to more serious forms of Covid-19.
Other countries affected by the variant
The British variant has already been found in several countries, such as Portugal, France, Jordan, South Korea and Chile.
On the North American continent, the British mutation had already been identified in Canada last weekend.
The United States, which has the largest number of deaths from Covid-19 in the world, is currently experiencing a spectacular rebound in the epidemic, with regularly more than 200,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,000 deaths per day, for about three weeks.
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