Hawaii Labs On The Lookout For More Contagious COVID-19 Variants - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Labs On The Lookout For More Contagious COVID-19 Variants
The mutations found in other U.S. states have not appeared yet in the islands but officials say it’s just a matter of time.
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New and highly infectious strains of the coronavirus have not yet been detected in Hawaii, but the director of the state’s laboratory says the lab is actively searching for clues that would indicate a new variant is circulating among the islands.
One of the latest and highly infectious mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19 disease is circulating on the continental U.S. The variant, called B.1.1.7, was first detected in Britain and has since been discovered in states including California, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut.