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UK Variant B.1.1.7 SARS CoV2 Sequences From Tennessee


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Sequences for the two B.1.1.7 cases described below have not been released.  they will be assigned UNK numbers which will be updated when released.

USA/TN-CDC-STM-UNK151/2021 Tennessee
USA/TN-CDC-STM-UNK152/2021 Tennessee

USA/TN-CDC-8636/2021 1/11 60 Tennessee
USA/TN-CDC-8637/2021 1/5  36 Tennessee

Tennessee Department of Health has announced two confirmed cases of a more contagious strain of COVID-19 in Tennessee, making the state one of more than 20 states in the country reporting COVID-19 cases caused by variants.

According to the Health Department, this is out of a total of seven specimens sent to the CDC for confirmation.

Dr. William Schaffner with Vanderbilt University Medical Center said the variant strain has to be specially tested beyond the regular COVID-19 infection nasal swab.

https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/tdh-5-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-19-strain-found-in-tennessee-so-far/

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