COVID-19 variants of concern higher than reported, but giving precise data challenging, says BCCDC director

COVID-19 variants of concern higher than reported, but giving precise data challenging, says BCCDC director
Laura Dhillon Kane
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A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the number of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern is higher than what has been publicly reported in the province.
But Mel Krajden, director of the centre’s public-health laboratory, says providing precise figures for these variant cases is challenging, in part because of the delay to complete whole-genome sequencing and because not all samples can be sequenced.

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