The B.1.17 sequence described below ha not been released.  It will be assigned a UNK number, which will be updated upon release.

USA/MA-CDC-STM-UNK129/2021 Massachusetts

A second person tested positive Tuesday in Massachusetts with the more contagious variant of COVID-19 first detected in the United Kingdom, Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel said.

Bharel said the case of the B.1.1.7 variant was discovered by the Massachusetts Public Health Laboratory, but she did not offer further details.

The first case of the new strain of the coronavirus was detected over the weekend in a female resident of Boston in her 20s who had visited the United Kingdom.

Bharel disclosed the new case at Wednesday’s meeting of the Public Health Council.

https://whdh.com/news/second-case-of-covid-19-variant-detected-in-mass/

A man in his 20’s from Worcester County is the second person in Massachusetts to be diagnosed with the U.K. COVID-19 variant, the Department of Public Health confirmed Wednesday.

Edited January 20, 20215 yr by niman

USA/MA-CDC-STM-UNK129/2021 Massachusetts

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