COVID-19 present in Prince Albert’s wastewater has more than doubled.The latest findings from the University of Saskatchewan monitoring team show the amount of virus RNA jumped up 112.7 per cent over the previous reporting period.
COVID had him on his deathbed, then frontline hospital workers saved this Sask man’s life USask toxicologist John Giesy told Global News “100 per cent is a doubling.”“It sounds like a lot, but it’s about typical for what we see when we’re on the upward swing in one of these waves.
So that seems to be increasing at this point in time.”The amount of virus RNA increased 60.1 per cent in North Battleford, while it decreased 35.5 per cent in Saskatoon.All or nearly all the detected virus is BA.2, the more transmissible Omicron subvariant.In Saskatoon, BA.2 accounts for 100 per cent of the detected virus, in North Battleford it’s 97.8 per cent and in Prince Albert, the latest variant accounts for 80.6.Giesy also said they may – and he stressed “may”— have spotted trace amounts of what could be a new “X” lineage.
Omicron XE variant: Here is what we know about this COVID hybrid strain “These X variants are various versions of a recombination of the Omicron BA.1 and Omicron BA.2.