Detect a case of the new variant of COVID-19 in Florida

Miami – Florida health authorities reported on Thursday that they had found evidence from the most recent case in the United States of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus first seen in England, saying it was discovered in a man who hasn’t traveled lately.

The case, which was revealed in a Florida Department of Health statement tweeted on its HealthyFla website, was caught following reports in recent days of two individual cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 discovered in Colorado and California . .

In the statement, Florida authorities said the new variant of the virus was discovered in a man in his 20s in Martin County, which borders the Atlantic coast north of the peninsula’s densely populated south. The health department did not provide further details such as the man’s health status or how the variant was detected.

California announced the second confirmed case of the new variant of the coronavirus on Wednesday, 24 hours after the first infection with the variant was known in the United States, in Colorado. It was a member of that state’s National Guard who was sent to help a nursing home with problems from an outbreak.

Scientists in Great Britain believe the variant is more contagious than previously identified species. The cases have raised questions about how the version circulating in England reached the United States and whether it is too late to stop it. Some experts say it is likely already spreading across the country.