(Photo : Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) Check Colorado site tester Pamela Deemie holds a bag after administering a COVID test at Echo Park Stadium on December 30, 2020 in Parker, Colorado.
Two U.S. states, Colorado and California, have each confirmed their first cases of the more contagious COVID-19 variant that was first identified in the United Kingdom.
The earlier one of these cases was found in the state of Colorado for a male patient in his 20s who is currently in isolation, reported BBC.
Meanwhile, the California reported its first case of the COVID-19 variant in the southern part of the state.