ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County health officials announced two more cases of the U.K. variant of COVID-19, also known as the B 1.1.7 variant during a news conference on Monday.
The Florida Department of Health said of the 12 Orange County residents with the variant, none of them have required hospitalization and all of them are out of quarantine.
FDOH Epidemiologist Alvin Chu said two of the 12 patients were asymptomatic. [TRENDING: 1 dead in Rolls Royce crash | Mom, boyfriend arrested after toddler drowns | How to get the vaccine in Fla.] “We don’t know necessarily if you have a variant until many days down the road, perhaps even weeks.