WASHINGTON - A more transmissible variant of the coronavirus first identified in South Africa has been detected for the first time on US soil in two adults with no travel history and no connection to each other, officials said Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement confirming the development, adding it was working to expand a national system to detect mutations.Scientists are more worried about this mutation than they are about the better known B.1.1.7 variant first identified in Britain, which has been seen now in dozens of US states.
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