ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of documented COVID-19 variant cases tied to the U.K.
with nearly 380 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, according to the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Now with 379 documented cases, the Sunshine State has twice as many U.K. variant cases as California, which has 189 as of Sunday night, according to the CDC database.
Texas has 49 cases, both Illinois and North Carolina have 23 cases each and Maryland has documented 22. The number of mutant cases is expected to grow as more labs are brought on to sequence virus samples and track variants.