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01 Feb 2021 05:03
WA chief medical officer Andrew Robertson says the close contacts of the hotel security guard who tested positive to COVID-19 do not pose a risk to the WA community at the moment. We have identified his close contacts, the 13 very closest, including his flatmates, the doctor he saw, a number of others. They are all negative so that is actually good, Dr Robertson said. They are not posing a risk to the community at the moment.
He said the results for the other 53 of his close contacts will be known in the coming days. If they are negative then they obviously pose no risk to the community and obviously if they are positive then we will do whatever contact tracing is required, he said.
Jan 31, 2021 / 03:36 PM EST
(CNN) A variant suspected of helping fuel a surge of coronavirus in Brazil’s Amazon region shows up in Minnesota. Another that’s been worrying officials in South Africa pops up in two places in South Carolina and, just days later, in Maryland.
Scientists are not surprised to see the coronavirus changing and evolving it’s what viruses do, after all. And with so much unchecked spread across the US and other parts of the world, the virus is getting plenty of opportunity to do just that.
Four of the new variants are especially worrisome.
“The variants that have been identified recently seem to spread more easily. They’re more transmissible, which can lead to increased number of cases, and increased stress on our already overtaxed system,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a briefing Wednesday.