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COVID-19 variant seen in Hampshire County
Published: 2/15/2021 6:56:05 PM
NORTHAMPTON A Hampshire County man in his 20s is one of 29 people in the state known to have had a case of the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant since mid-January.
The state Department of Public Health said it could not say what town it was detected in, and that it can provide county level data only “for medical privacy reasons,” Ann Scales, a DPH spokesperson, said in an email on Tuesday.
First detected in the U.K., the virus mutation is more easily spread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The first case of the B.1.1.7 variant in the state was detected Jan. 17, according to the DPH. “Four of those 29 cases have evidence of recent travel, suggesting that the majority of cases identified in Massachusetts are community-acquired,” the DPH announced Sunday.