First US cases of South African coronavirus variant identified in South Carolina
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A mutation of the novel coronavirus that was first identified in South Africa has officially reached the U.S. South Carolina health officials on Thursday announced that two cases of the variant — known as B.1.351 — were identified in two residents with no recent travel history, suggesting they were locally acquired.
Officials with the South Carolina Department of and Environmental Control (DHEC) in a news release said they were contacted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after genome sequencing of a South Carolina sample was found to be the variant.
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