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Half of Alberta’s active cases are now variants of concern, as the province reported a record 942 new cases of the more-contagious strains of COVID-19 on Sunday.
The record variant cases come as Alberta prepares to expand vaccine eligibility to include an additional 240,000 health-care workers in Phase 2C on Monday.
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The more-contagious variants now represent 50.5 per cent of Alberta’s 14,293 active cases across the province. Nearly 2,000 variant cases were detected over the weekend, including 876 on Saturday and 942 on Sunday, the majority of which are the B.1.1.7 strain, first identified in the United Kingdom, which is now the dominant strain in Alberta.