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Winnipeg Free Press By: Danielle Da Silva and Dylan Robertson | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 Winnipeg Free Press A highly contagious variant of COVID-19, which first appeared in the United Kingdom, was mistakenly suspected in seven COVID-19 cases on a northern First Nation because it shares the same markers as a "Manitoba variant" of the virus. Over the weekend, there were concerns the B.1.1.7 mutation had arrived on the remo...

Vanessa Tignanelli/The Globe and Mail Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer is warning of the “very real” risk that new coronavirus variants could lead to a resurgence in infections as more cases of the fast-spreading variants are detected across Canada daily. The variant threat is forcing local public-health officials to step up their COVID-19 containment measures, even as a sharp drop in overall cases since the second week of January prompts some provincial governments to tiptoe toward r...

OTTAWA — Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in “a very delicate period” as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants tick upward…

OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in “a very delicate period” as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants tick upward across the country, even while overall numbers of new coronavirus cases fall.

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in “a very delicate period” as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants tick upward across the country, even while overall numbers of new coronavirus cases fall.

#1172 of 1300 articles from the Special Report: Coronavirus in Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021., to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in "a very delicate period" as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants tick upward across the country, even while overall numbers of new coronavirus cases fall...

Colijns lab released modelling data this week showing public health rules in several provinces, including B.C., would not be sufficient to prevent exponential growth in cases starting around March if a COVID-19 variant with a 40 per cent higher transmission rate became established. "By established I mean some cluster doesnt get stopped and takes off and we dont notice or we dont act and we are unable to stop those chains of transmission and so they take off the way the current COVID has," she s...

  VANCOUVER -- Theres a race between COVID-19 and the rollout of vaccine as researchers and health officials in B.C. warn of two faster-spreading variants. The number of variant cases may start low, but increased transmission could only be a few weeks away, just as delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is delayed, said Caroline Colijn, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Infection, Evolution and Public Health at Simon Fraser University. Colijns lab released modelling data th...

B.C. ramps up screening for faster-spreading coronavirus variants of concern Theres a race between COVID-19 and the rollout of vaccine as researchers and health officials in B.C. warn of two faster spreading variants. Social Sharing Stalled immunization rollout means were in a race between the vaccine and the virus, SFU professor says Posted: Jan 27, 2021 7:20 AM PT | Last Updated: January 27 A poster of Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.s provincial health officer, is pictured at a COVID-19 testing centre...