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• COVID-19 variants: Not the same disease

  Increasingly, experts warn of the need to double down on safety measures to ward off more highly transmissible COVID-19 variants.

  Health

  Apr 14
• Brazil detects 1st case of South Africa COVID-19 variant as deaths skyrocket

  The detection of additional variants adds to concerns that a brutal COVID-19 wave battering Brazil may keep breaking grim records for weeks to come.

  World

  Apr 7
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• Questions raised about how Alberta released info about P.1 COVID-19 variant outbreaks

  The mayor of Edson is calling on the Alberta government to be more forthcoming with information about tweets were issued about two COVID-19 variant outbreaks in this province.

  Health

  Apr 6
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• U.S. expert says Canada is missing the chance to fight the P.1 COVID-19 variant

  Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding warned in January 2020 that COVID-19 could become a "thermonuclear pandemic." He says the P.1 variant from Brazil could be even worse.

  Health

  Apr 6
• P.1 variant is spreading in Canada. What do we know about it and vaccines?

  The rapid spread of the P.1 variant in some parts of Canada has added new urgency to the race between variants and vaccines.

  Canada

  Apr 5
• Will the more deadly COVID-19 variants ruin our summer? Here’s what experts are saying

  What do the new coronavirus variants mean for summer plans, such as weddings, travel and BBQ gatherings at the park?

  Canada

  Apr 5
• Brazil’s largest city begins exhuming old graves to make space for COVID-19 dead

  The variant first identified in Brazil -- P1 -- is also the variant in a cluster in Whistler, B.C., that prompted health authorities to shut down the ski resort on Monday.

  Canada

  Apr 2
• Brazil hits record 100,000 COVID-19 cases in a day

  Brazil's outbreak has set weekly records due to a patchy vaccine rollout, a lack of national coordination and an infectious new variant.

  Health

  Mar 25
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• Rate of COVID-19 variant spread ‘very concerning’ as cases near 3,000

  The exponential spread of more transmissible coronavirus variants threatens to delay the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warn.

  Health

  Mar 12
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• Pfizer vaccine shows promise against Brazil variant in lab study

  In previously published studies, Pfizer had found that its vaccine neutralized other more contagious variants first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

  Science

  Mar 9