First Case Of South African COVID Variant In New York Found On Long Island, Gov. Cuomo Announces

New York City NY

21 February, 2021

3:29 PM

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CBS New York February 21, 2021 The first case of the South African coronavirus variant has been discovered in a New York state resident, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. The South African variant case involved a resident of Nassau County, Cuomo said in a news release. The sequencing was conducted at Opentrons Labworks Inc's Pandemic Response Lab, a New York City-based commercial lab, and verified at the Wadsworth Center in Albany. Read more at CBS New York