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Growing COVID-19 case numbers from variants of concern in B.C. could dash the province’s hopes for indoor religious services or any other return to normal life in the near future, experts say.
Sally Otto, a University of British Columbia professor who has done COVID-19 modelling, said cases of the variant first detected in the United Kingdom have doubled nearly every week since the beginning of February.
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Just looking at the past four weeks, she pointed out there were 81 cases of the variant on Feb. 22, 137 on March 1, 363 on March 8 and 818 on Monday. The number of cases grew to 921 on Tuesday.