BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has identified the state’s first case of a coronavirus variant believed to be more transmissible than the original. The governor’s office said Saturday the case was detected in a person in the New Orleans area. In neighboring Texas, health officials in Dallas County on Saturday reported the state’s third case of the variant, this one in a Dallas man in his 20s with no history of travel outside the United States. Texas reported a Houston-area man as its first case of a person infected with the new variant on Jan. 7.

Source: Daily Sun January 16, 2021 20:37 UTC