COVID-19 outbreak at a North Bay, Ont., apartment building has grown to 18 confirmed novel coronavirus variant cases.Meanwhile, a total of 24 people in the Skyline Lancelot Apartment building have tested positive for COVID-19, the city’s chief medical officer confirmed to Global News.
COVID-19 outbreak declared at North Bay apartment building where variant cases likely present The number of variant-involved cases could grow as the health unit is still waiting on genome sequencing results to confirm total variant cases.
Testing is also still underway to determine the exact COVID-19 variant strain of the 18 cases.“It does take quite a bit of time because they have to do the genomic sequencing.