Maui County has highest California variant cases in state DOH: Jail cluster cases are from the variant
Maui County has the largest amount of the highly transmissible California variant among specimens analyzed by the state Department of Health’s Laboratories Division.
The COVID-19 variant discovered in California, also known as the B.1.429 variant, has been found in 165 specimens from Maui that have been subject to genomic sequencing in the state, the DOH said Friday.
Oahu has seen 116 specimens of the California variant, while Hawaii County recorded 10 and Kauai had one.
