PITTSBURGH — (WPXI)-Health officials with the Allegheny County Health Department reported that the first case of the UK variant of COVID-19 has been identified in a patient in the county. The person does not know how they contracted the virus. ACHD director Dr. Debra Bogen said at a news conference Wednesday that she has suspected this coronavirus strain has been in the county “for a while.” Two cases of that strain have been found in Pennsylvania already, one in Centre County and the other in Bucks County. Despite this news, Bogen said it was encouraging that the number of cases and hospitalizations in the county was dropping. She said the positivity rate in the county was still at 6% and the number of new cases was about 200 per day.