30 Testing for Covid-19 / J. Stacevičius/LRT A person in Lithuania has been diagnosed to have the UK variant of the coronavirus, the Health Ministry confirmed on Monday. According to the ministry's spokesman, the person is a woman from Vilnius who tested positive for the coronavirus in early January. Her sample was sent for genome sequencing to a laboratory in Roterdam, the Netherlands. “On January 27, the National Public Health Laboratory received a confirmation that the sample contained the variant of SARS-CoV-2 with the B.1.1.7 mutation,” Vytautas Beniušis told BNS. The woman most probably got the virus from a family member diagnosed with the disease earlier, according Lithuania's National Public Health Centre (NVSC), and had not travelled abroad before testing positive.