Alberta announced its first COVID-19 case linked to the B1617 variant on April 22, the variant fuelling the case surge in India. If you have been following the news, you’ll know that our brothers and sisters in India are suffering terribly at the hands of the B1617 variant. They had run out of oxygen, beds, and the ability to dispose of their dead. The new variants spread quickly and are more deadly than Covid-19.
There were more than 1,300 new cases involving variants of concern reported on Wednesday.
About 63 per cent of active cases have been identified as variants of concern, but not all cases can be screened for variants, due to technical limitations with some samples. Alberta Health Services has said about 80 to 85 per cent of all positive samples are successfully screened for the variants of concern.
There are 13,460 active variant cases, while 15,708 people have recovered and 82 people had died from variant infections.
Alberta had 28,287 cases linked to variant B117, first detected in the United Kingdom, 77 cases linked to variant B1351, first detected in South Africa, and 885cases linked to the variant P1, which was first identified in Brazil.
