The United States detected the first case of a variant of the coronavirus which emerged recently in Brazil (Also known as P.1), Minnesota state health authorities said Monday.
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The Department of Health of this northern state of the country noted in a statement that the “Public Health Laboratory found the Sars-VOC-2 virus variant known as Brazil P.1 in (…) a Minnesota resident with a history of a recent trip to Brazil“.
The patient, a resident of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul metropolitan area known as Twin Cities, tested positive for covid-19 in early January and was prescribed isolation, he added.
Subsequent laboratory information revealed that this was the Brazilian variant. This case, along with the detection of three infected with the British variant in Minnesota in recent weeks, highlights “The importance of limiting travel as much as possible during a pandemic”, Noted epidemiologist Ruth Lynfield in the statement.
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Public Health Laboratory found the Sars-VOC-2 virus variant known as Brazil P.1 in (…) a Minnesota resident with a history of a recent trip to Brazil
US President Joe Biden on Monday re-imposed a ban on entry into the country to most foreign nationals who have been in the UK, Brazil, Ireland and much of Europe.
It also extended the ban to travelers who have recently been to South Africa, in the face of warnings that variants of the coronavirus more contagious are already present in the United States.
Biden tightened measures for the use of chins last week and ordered those entering the country to be quarantined as part of his strategy to combat the pandemic, which has wreaked havoc on United States, with more than 25 million infections and more than 400,000 deaths.
AFP
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