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LA County scientists have begun to test samples of the coronavirus from local patients to determine if a new, potentially more contagious strain circulating in Britain has arrived, as some officials believe is likely amid a major surge of infections.
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L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said a public health laboratory has begun to do gene sequencing to test virus samples collected in L.A. County, but it will take about a week to finish the process.

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The variant is a concern because it may make the virus easier to be transmitted from one person to another, officials said. But once a person has the virus, the variant doesn’t appear to make the person more likely to die.

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