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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 remote Pauingassi First Nation in the thick of a COVID-19 outbreak. On Tuesday, chief provincial publ...

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 reopening. The latest race to contain a variant-fuelled outbreak is unfolding in North Bay, where a c...

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.