New York has confirmed its first case of the UK COVID-19 variant on Monday in a man who has no known travel history. “The Wadsworth Lab has confirmed New York State’s first case of the U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) of the virus that causes COVID. An individual from Saratoga County, New York, tested positive for the strain. The individual had no known travel history,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a statement. The man in his 60s was “symptomatic but he is on the mend and he’s doing better,” the governor said in a press call. “He did not travel recently, so this suggests that it’s in the community, it was community spread as opposed to having traveled to the UK.” The same UK strain has been confirmed in Colorado, California, and Florida. Scientists believe the variant is at least 50 percent more contagious than other prior strains but is …