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Coronavirus: How the rise of new variants in Canada could impact schools
COVID-19 lockdown, the return to in-person classes in Toronto comes as a relief to parents like David Wood.“I love my kids but they were starting to drive me nuts,” the single father of three told Global News.Still, Wood admits he is worried about the potential of new COVID-19 variants including B1.1.7, the variant that first emerged in the U.K.“The key to remember here, is (the B1.1.7 variant) appears to be more transmissible, somewhere in the range of 40 to 70 per cent and that appears across the board on age,” said Jean-Paul Soucy, an infectious disease epidemiologist and PhD student at the University of Toronto.In Alberta, where in-person learning at schools resumed on Jan.