1st case of U.K. coronavirus variant in Waterloo linked to long-term care outbreak: officials “They have been screened as having a variant and therefore, when it’s been determined what variant they have and that they have a variant of concern, then it will be publicly reported,” she explained Friday morning.There are three variants of concern the province is keeping an eye on including ones stemming from the U.K., South Africa and Brazil.“Early evidence suggests that variants of concern may spread more easily than previous variants of COVID-19 and that there may be the potential for more severe illness,” Wang said.A week ago, the region announced the first recorded case of the U.K.