COVID-19. Ontario attempts to clarify what is essential under COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home order In a series of tweets Wednesday, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr.
Theresa Tam said officials are continuing to monitor for the different variants of the COVID-19 virus through “routine & targeted genomic surveillance to detect variants of concern including variants that may be associated with an increased risk of spread.”Tam said to date, 22 cases of the U.K.
variant and one case of the South African variant have been detected in Canada.2/2 To date, provinces and territories have reported 22 cases of the B.1.1.17 (United Kingdom) virus variant and 1 case of the 501Y.V2 (South Africa) virus variant.