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California announces first case of virus variant

by Don Thompson
| December 30, 2020 2:09 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced the first known case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in the nation's most populated state, following the first reported U.S. case in Colorado.

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