California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced in a joint news conference with Dr. Anthony Fauci that a case of the COVID-19 variant found in the UK had been detected in Southern California.
"An hour or so ago we were informed that this new variant, this new strain that we’ve identified from the United Kingdom…. and in Colorado yesterday has been identified here in the state of California, in Southern California," Newsom said, according to NBC California.
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