COVID-19 variant first identified in India could threaten to derail B.C.’s reopening plans.Data released this week by the B.C.
Centre for Disease Control showed that as of May 15, the B.1.617 variant accounted for seven per cent of cases in B.C., up from four per cent the week prior and two per cent the week before that.
U.K.’s full reopening plan could be jeopardized by spread of B.1.617.2 variant The World Health Organization officially declared B.1617 as a “variant of global concern” earlier this month, and is being investigated as a contributor to India’s brutal surge of cases and deaths.“That type of doubling is definitely of concern,” Sally Otto, a UBC mathematical biologist and member of the B.C.