COVID Variant

The so-called “South African” variant of the COVID-19 virus has been detected in a Connecticut patient for the first time, according to the Department of Public Health.

The so-called “South African” variant of the COVID-19 virus has been detected in a Connecticut patient for the first time, according to the Department of Public Health.

Governor Ned Lamont announced four additional cases of the coronavirus U.K. variant has been discovered in the state Monday, bringing the total to 8. The news comes on the heels of new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines set to go into effect on Tuesday. The hope and goal behind the restrictions is to halt any new variants of…

Two more Connecticut residents have tested positive for the UK COVID-19 variant, according to state officials. A total of four Connecticut residents have now tested positive for the new strain of the virus. The two additional people who tested positive for COVID variant B.1.1.7 are family members of one of the first two people with the virus in the state….

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday said new data indicated the existing COVID-19 vaccines were still effective against new variants. “Right now from the reports we have literally as of today, it appears that the vaccines will still be effective against them with the big caveat that you want to play close attention to it,” Fauci said.

She’s been analyzing COVID cases in Connecticut for nearly a year and on Wednesday night, Yale School of Public Health Postdoctoral fellow Tara Alpert made a milestone pandemic discovery. “I was the one who was doing the sequencing and the analysis and actually got to see those numbers pop up on my screen first,” Alpert said. What the analysis...

Two cases of the UK variant of the coronavirus are now in Connecticut and Governor Lamont addressed the concerns of this variant on Thursday.