A 23-year-old Florida man is now out of isolation after being the first person in the state to test positive for a new and more contagious strain of COVID-19, health officials said Saturday.
The presence of the new strain in Martin County, on Florida's Treasure Coast, was first discovered Thursday through the CDC's random sampling of COVID-19 tests.
The CDC is now working with the Florida Department of Health to examine more cases in the area and ascertain how much the new strain has spread.
It is unclear when the individual tested positive, but Martin County health official Carol Ann Vitani described the patient Saturday as "very cooperative," following COVID-19 protocols.The person was asymptomatic and had not traveled outside the.