1st Local Case Of Brazil P.1 COVID-19 Variant Detected In Davis CBS Sacramento 20 hrs ago Syndicated Local – CBS Sacramento DAVIS (CBS13) — UC Davis says they have identified another first-known local case of a third COVID-19 variant. On Thursday, UC Davis officials announced that they had confirmed a case of the P.1 variant of coronavirus. This particular strain first rose to prominence in Brazil and has since been identified as a variant of concern by the CDC. Previously, the Health Davis Together partnership of COVID-19 testing had also identified confirmed cases of the South African and UK coronavirus variants in Davis.