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Chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said his office hasn’t yet seen “widespread community transmission” of the more contagious type of coronavirus.
Manitoba is in a race against community transmission of highly contagious COVID-19 variants after a week in which there were several new cases and three reported exposures in high-risk settings.
Manitoba is in a race against community transmission of highly contagious COVID-19 variants after a week in which there were several new cases and three reported exposures in high-risk settings.
On Friday, one additional case caused by the B.1.1.7 variant which was first detected in the United Kingdom and is significantly more contagious than the common virus strain was confirmed in Manitoba. Public health officials said the case was connected to travel.
WINNIPEG For over a year, COVID-19 has dominated headlines and impacted almost every facet of daily life around the world. The virus’s worldwide impact is still so large one might forget COVID-19 s relatively humble origins. It all started at the tail end of 2019, when more than forty people in Wuhan City, China, came down with a mysterious respiratory illness. At the time, even experts couldn’t see this was the start of a global pandemic. “When I first heard about the disease, I thought, ‘Oh, it’s over in Wuhan, China, influenzas pop up there all the time, it’s densely populated, this is going to be a problem for somewhere else,’” said epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa Raywat Deonandan, “I was stupid that way, selfish and stupid, briefly.”