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The highly-contagious Delta COVID-19 variant is likely to become dominant in Alberta, says one of the province’s top doctors.
Cases of this variant, which originated in India, are currently low in the province at 357 although they’re around twice as high now as they were a week ago. But Dr. André Corriveau, deputy chief medical officer of health, said because this variant is up to twice as transmissible it is possible it will replace the Alpha variant, originating in the U.K, as Alberta’s dominant strain.
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Delta COVID-19 variant likely to become dominant strain in Alberta, Corriveau says
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