Sequences from at least six of the samples described below have not been released.  They will be assigned UNK numbers, which will be updated upon release.

USA/IL-CDC-UNK443/2021 Peoria County Illinois

The variant, known as B.1.1.7, was identified in samples of COVID-19 positive tests taken outside of Chicago and suburban Cook County for the first time, according to Melaney Arnold, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Public Health.

The variant was discovered in cases from Cook, Champaign, McLean, Peoria, DeWitt-Piatt, and Vermilion counties, said Arnold, who did not respond to a follow-up question from WTTW News about where each of the eight new cases were discovered and when.

In all, 17 cases of the COVID-19 variant have been discovered in people who live in Illinois since the first case was announced on Jan. 25, state health officials said. 

https://news.wttw.com/2021/02/04/8-additional-cases-more-transmissible-covid-19-variant-discovered-across-illinois

USA/IL-CDC-UNK443/2021 Peoria County Illinois

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