First Case Of South African COVID Variant In New York Found On Long Island, Gov. Cuomo Announces

CBS New York

February 21, 2021

The first case of the South African coronavirus variant has been discovered in a New York state resident, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.

The South African variant case involved a resident of Nassau County, Cuomo said in a news release.

The sequencing was conducted at Opentrons Labworks Inc’s Pandemic Response Lab, a New York City-based commercial lab, and verified at the Wadsworth Center in Albany.

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