Canada avoids winter wave, but new variant a threat

Winter is coming but, unlike Europe and the US Midwest too, Canada hasn’t seen a new wave of coronavirus infections. The emergence of a new potentially more-virulent coronavirus strain in South Africa could pose a new threat, however, particularly if the mutations make it more vaccine-resistant than the Delta strain.

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