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April 19, 2021Lincoln, NE |  By: AP

Highly contagious South African variant of Covid-19 found in NE

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _
State health officials say the highly contagious variant of COVID-19 first found
in South Africa, known as B.1.351, has now been found in Nebraska. The Nebraska
Department of Health and Human Services said in a news release Friday that the
first case of the variant was recently confirmed in a Lancaster County resident.
News of the discovery of the variant comes as the agency says about 524,000, or
just over 35% of Nebraskans, have been fully vaccinated. Everyone 16 and older
in Nebraska is now eligible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.