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Article content B.C. is drastically undercounting variants of concern, according to several prominent epidemiologists and data analysts, all of whom say these highly contagious strains now make up more than half of COVID-19 cases in the province. Internal slides from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, leaked to Postmedia News, show that presumptive variant cases made up at least 40 per cent of all positive COVID-19 cases as of March 27. That’s double the estimate given by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on March 25, when she said about 20 per cent of positive COVID-19 cases wer...

Minnesota recorded more than 2,600 new daily cases on Monday, according to the Minnesota Department of Health, its highest tally since January. Hospitalizations were up 37% from two weeks earlier, the New York Times reported. British Columbia (BC), the province on the west coast of Canada that shares a 1,300-mile land border with the US, recorded more than 1,000 daily cases on Tuesday for the first time since January, Adrian Dix, BC minister of health, said on Twitter.  Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota ...

Matt and Rebecca Dell with their children Sophie, 4, and Corbin 8 in front of their home in Oak Bay on Monday, April 5, 2021. The Dells plan to keep the kids out of school and daycare for two weeks as COVID-19 case counts rise. ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST Five Greater Victoria schools had COVID-19 exposures during the first week back after spring break — compared to just one in all of February — heightening parents’ anxiety and leading some to pull their children from school. Island Health warned families and staff last week that “significant numbers” of exposures were expected in ...

Article content Health Minister Adrian Dix faces calls to release more information on where COVID-19 variants are spreading, who is becoming infected and what sectors of the economy are hardest hit after the number of cases of the highly contagious P1 variant nearly doubled over the Easter weekend. Dix did not commit to releasing the figures, but said Monday he expects the more-transmissible variants to eventually replace earlier strains of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. “What we know is, the most transmissive variants of COVID-19 are ultimately going to take over,” Dix said. “We...

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