Maryland state authorities reported a case of the South African variant of the coronavirus this Saturday, after two other cases were reported in South Carolina on Thursday.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan explained that “this is an adult living in the Baltimore metropolitan region. You have not traveled abroad, so community transmission is likely. A trace is being done to ensure that any contact is quickly identified, quarantined and tested, “he said, quoted by CNN.
In South Carolina Two cases have been detected in which the patients have not traveled abroad recently and are not related to each other, reported state health authorities.
The Director of Health South Carolina Public, Brannon Traxler , explained to the press that the coronavirus tests were carried out in early January and that “they are no longer contagious. It takes a while to do the sequencing ”, he said referring to the elapsed time.
The variant B.1. 351 of coronavirus is more contagious than the original and could be resistant to antibodies generated by patients who have already overcome COVID – 19. However, it is believed that vaccines are still effective. So far, this variant has been identified in about thirty countries.
