VANCOUVER --
Three more Surrey schools have had COVID-19 exposures that include a “variant of concern,” according to Fraser Health.
At least one person associated with each of the schools – Queen Elizabeth Secondary School, Frank Hurt Secondary School, and M.B. Sanford Elementary School – has tested positive for a concerning and more transmissible variant of the coronavirus.
“Only those staff and students who have been identified as close contacts need to be tested and have been contacted,” reads a statement released Friday night from Fraser Health.
The health authority did not specify which new strain of the coronavirus was detected and said only that it’s a strain that can “transmit more quickly and easily but does not interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines, nor affect our ability to test for the virus.”