Updates on CCP Virus: Washington, Oregon Report Cases of New Variant

Health workers are seen in protective gear inside a locked down portion of the Jordan residential area to contain a new outbreak of COVID-19 in Hong Kong on Jan. 23, 2021. Tyrone Siu/Reuters

The Washington Department of Health announced Saturday that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus’s B.1.1.7 variant, which first emerged in the United Kingdom last September, has been confirmed by DNA sequencing in two cases in Snohomish County. Those are the first confirmed cases in Washington.

The Oregon Health Authority confirmed a second case, in someone from Yamhill County, a week after the first case was detected in Multnomah County.

Conditions for Shanghai Residents Rapidly Worsen

Thousands of residents in downtown Shanghai are being relocated to hotels in emergency isolation measures after local authorities said hospital workers and patients in the city center had tested positive for the CCP virus.