CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada health officials have confirmed the first known case in the state of a coronavirus variant that was first identified in South Africa.
The Nevada State Public Health Laboratory said Thursday that the mutated version of the virus was confirmed a day earlier in a sample traced to a person who traveled from South Africa and began showing symptoms of COVID-19 when arriving in Reno.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the variant has been detected in 10 states thus far, not including Nevada's case. Nevada has also reported six known cases of a more contagious coronavirus variant that first originated in the United Kingdom.