COVID-19 variant case numbers and spread as the province is once again going to be testing all positive cases for variants of concern.The province had to press pause on screening all cases May 1 as labs simply didn’t have the capacity to keep up once the number of new cases started topping 2,000 cases a day.Alberta Health spokesperson Tom McMillan said the province “will start screening all confirmed cases starting this week.” India surpasses 24 million COVID-19 cases as mutant variant spreads across globe The development is welcome news as concern is rising both in Alberta and around the world about the B.1.617 variant first identified in India.The first confirmed case involving the B.1.617 variant in Alberta was publicly reported on.