{"id":145303,"date":"2021-01-01T05:31:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T02:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/third-us-case-of-new-covid-19-strain-found-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T05:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T02:31:01","slug":"third-us-case-of-new-covid-19-strain-found-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/third-us-case-of-new-covid-19-strain-found-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"#Third US case of new COVID-19 strain found in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Third US case of new COVID-19 strain found in Florida<\/strong>”
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The new coronavirus strain first found in the United Kingdom has now popped up in Florida, the state\u2019s department of health said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 variant was found in a Martin County man in his 20s with no travel<\/a> history prior to his diagnosis, The Florida Department of Health said on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two other cases of the mutant strain were found earlier this week in the U.S., first in Colorado and then in California.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that the new variant of the coronavirus could be 70 percent more transmissible than the previous strain.<\/p>\n

Federal infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has said he expects the new strain to crop up in other states, too.<\/p>\n

The Sunshine State\u2019s discovery of the mutation comes as health officials there\u00a0reported the highest daily jump in standard COVID-19 cases ever on Thursday.<\/p>\n

There were 17,192 new cases on the last day of 2020 and 133 new deaths, raising the toll to 21,857.\n <\/p><\/div>\n