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(Bloomberg) When British Columbia shut down the ski resort of Whistler in late March to contain a Covid-19 outbreak, a flood of alarming headlines circulated, warning that the highly contagious Brazil variant was running amok in Canada.
This week, the province’s top doctor pushed back: the number of P.1 cases the more contagious variant that emerged in the Amazonian city of Manaus is high because British Columbia is testing more for the strain than most parts of the world.
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