COVID-19 strain across the region.“Members of the science table this week have advised Peel Public Health that B.1.617 … is increasingly being detected in Ontario and that Peel Region has the highest proportion of this variant out of the entire province,” Dr.
Lawrence Loh said at a briefing on Wednesday.The B.1.617 variant was first discovered in India and has been renamed by the World Health Organization as “Delta” to avoid stigmatizing countries which detect and report variants.The naming convention for coronavirus variants — using letters from the Greek alphabet — also saw the B.1.1.7 first identified in the U.K.