Sweden Confirms First Case of Variant Coronavirus in Visitor From UK

Travelers from Denmark are met by Swedish police in protective masks at the border control point at Hyllie station, as the Swedish government shut the border after a mutated strain of the coronavirus was discovered in Denmark, in Malmo, Sweden on Dec. 22, 2020. Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via Reuters

STOCKHOLM—The new variant of coronavirus linked to a rapid rise in infections in Britain has been detected in Sweden after a traveler from the United Kingdom became ill and tested positive, the Swedish Health Agency said on Saturday.

Health Agency official Sara Byfors told a news conference the traveler had been isolating and that no further positive cases had so far been detected.