Updates on CCP Virus: Nevada Has 1st Confirmed Case of South Africa Variant

A funeral worker walks carrying a casket lowering device after a burial at the Westpark Cemetery, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Johannesburg, South Africa on Dec. 24, 2020. Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo via Reuters

Nevada health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of a coronavirus variant that was originally identified in South Africa.

The Nevada State Public Health Laboratory said Thursday the mutated version of the virus was confirmed a day earlier in a sample traced to a person who traveled from South Africa and began showing symptoms of COVID-19 when arriving in Reno.