China News Service, January 1st. According to foreign media reports, on December 31, 2020 local time, Florida health officials stated that there is evidence that the state has discovered a case of the mutant new crown virus found in the United Kingdom, making Florida Become the third state in the United States to report a case of a mutant virus.
According to reports, the Florida Department of Health stated that the patient infected with the mutant virus was a man in his 20s in Martin County with no history of travel.
The Florida Department of Health said: "The department is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate."
Data map: On December 27, 2020, citizens of San Francisco, California, USA, relaxing by the sea.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
On December 29, 2020, local time, Colorado notified the first case of a mutated virus in the United States. The patient was a member of the State's National Guard.
Epidemiologists in the state said on the 30th that another member of the Colorado National Guard was also infected with the mutant virus.
On the same day, California also reported the state's first case of infection with a mutant virus.
Henry Walker, the head of the new crown epidemic of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that this mutated virus is likely to have spread between Americans.
Infectious disease expert Fauci also said that it is not surprising to find cases of the mutant virus in California. It is likely that more cases will appear, and other states may soon see the same cases of infection reported.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 14:23 on January 1, 2021, the total number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the United States has exceeded 19.96 million, and the cumulative number of deaths has exceeded 340,000.