More contagious coronavirus variants are becoming established in North Dakota, with the number of confirmed variant cases doubling this month.
The state lab has now identified 79 total cases of four variants 50 of the one first identified in the United Kingdom, 28 of the two California variants and one of the South African variant, according to Kirby Kruger, director of the Health Department s Disease Control Division.
Those types of variants all are on the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s list of variants of concern  a threat level in the middle of variants of interest and variants of high consequence. There are three in the low category and none in the high.
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