A person is confirmed to have the Covid-19 variant in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire.
Mr McManus said the county's public health team was "in the middle of doing enhanced contact tracing".
"It was always a matter of when, not if, in a county as big as Hertfordshire that we would get a case," he said.He said the case was "a good wake up call to all of us to take the basic precautions". But he warned: "I think we will see more cases, this is not going to be the only case I'm pretty sure of that."around the world, according to the World Health Organization , after first being discovered in South Africa.who is eligible by the end of January, to give people the best possible protection over the colder months.Find BBC News: East of England on
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