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  WINNIPEG -- Manitoba is looking into the steps involved in discovering and confirming COVID-19 variant cases in the province, after 18 days passed between the initial positive test to when the case of the B117 variant, which was first observed in the United Kingdom, was reported to the public. The traveller arrived in Winnipeg on January 19th. The province said in the bulletin reporting the case that on January 22, the initial test results from the traveller were received and the sample ...

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, February 1, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino. São Paulo, Brazil: On January 10, 2021, Japanese health authorities informed their Brazilian counterparts that four tourists who had just returned home with symptoms of COVID-19 after a trip to the Amazon were carrying a new variant of SARS-CoV-2. It was not, according to the Japanese, an ordinary mutation: the new strain represented 12 mutations, including one change in the protein that allows ...

Conselho Federal de Medicina, Marcio James / Flickr cc In one of the most puzzling and worrisome developments in the pandemic, scientists are racing to explain whats happening in Manaus, Brazil, a city of 2.2 million at the edge of the countrys rainforest that is experiencing a second explosive outbreak, even though the first one was so bad it was thought to have produced herd immunity. As the situation deepens in Manaus, overwhelming the citys health system again, researchers from Brazil and t...