COVID-19.The new cases and deaths come as the country works to determine if a new, potentially more transmissible strain of the virus which has been spreading rapidly in the U.K., has made its way to Canada.
Canada watching for new COVID-19 variant, warns against travel to U.K. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr.
Theresa Tam said officials are “still looking” and will be conducting more testing and genomic sequencing on known cases of the strain in the coming days.Tam said it wouldn’t be surprising if the variant is in many countries, adding that “it may become one of the more common strains” of the virus.On Sunday, Canada joined several other European countries which imposed travel.