LONDON (Reuters) – English health authorities have tracked down a previously-unidentified person who tested positive for the so-called ‘Brazil variant’ of COVID-19, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Health officials said on Sunday they had not been able to account for one of six cases in the country of a highly transmissible variant of coronavirus first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus.
Sunday’s announcement was the first time the variant had been detected in Britain and triggered a search to find the unidentified person.
That person had now been found, the Financial Times reported citing two officials. Public Health England did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report.
(Reporting by William James and Alistair Smout)
