Six people in the UK have been infected with a strain of coronavirus linked to a surge in cases in Brazil, including one person whom the British authorities have not yet been able to trace.
Revealing the Brazil variant has been found in the UK for the first time, Public Health England said on Sunday that two cases in England involved the same household in south Gloucestershire, where one person had travelled back from Brazil in mid-February.
PHE said the identity of a third person who, through a test, was shown to have the Brazil variant had yet to be identified.
A further three cases have been found in Scotland.
The agency said it was asking anyone who had completed a test on February 12 or 13, and had yet to receive their result or not completed a registration card, to call helplines in England or Scotland as soon as possible, as officials scramble to track the down the unknown person with the variant.
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