The new variants of the corona is wreaking havoc in the different countries of the world. Two cases of coronavirus strains first detected in South Africa have been reported in the US State of California, said Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday.

According to the report of CNN, both cases were identified in the Bay Area, one in Santa Clara and the other in Alameda County. Governor Newsom said that thirty labs across the state are working to sequence genomes and potentially uncover additional cases of variants.

According to the report, the discovery of the South African strain is in addition to 159 cases of the UK variant and 1,203 incidents of the West Coast variants identified thus far in the Golden State. However, the first two confirmed cases of the variant in the US were detected last month in South Carolina. 
Meanwhile. Coronavirus cases crosses 107.4 million mark. While 79,428,653 have recovered, 2,348,727 have died so far. The US remains the worst-hit country with 27,793,890, followed by India, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom. However, it terms of the total number of active cases, US tops the charts, followed by France, UK, Brazil and Belgium.

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