VILNIUS, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Lithuania's Health Ministry confirmed on Monday the country's first case of the coronavirus variant identified in Britain, local media reported.
"On Jan. 12, the National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory sent a sample to be analyzed in Rotterdam. On Jan. 27, we received a confirmation that the sent sample contained the mutated B117 strain," Vytautas Beniusis, head of the ministry's press service, was quoted as saying by the local news agency Elta.
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