VANCOUVER -- After B.C.’s provincial health officer said anyone contracting COVID-19 should assume they have one of the variants, she and other experts say any interactions people had safely before this third wave may now be a higher risk. On Thursday, Dr. Bonnie Henry outlined how variants have spread across the province, particularly the P1 variant first detected in Brazil and the B117 from the U.K. She says the province will no longer do more intensive genome sequencing to confirm if a sample screening positive for a variant and instead will focus on finding other variants and to determine how they respond to immunization.