COVID-19 variants of concern higher than reported, but giving precise data challenging, says BCCDC director Laura Dhillon Kane Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the number of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern is higher than what has been publicly reported in the province.
But Mel Krajden, director of the centre’s public-health laboratory, says providing precise figures for these variant cases is challenging, in part because of the delay to complete whole-genome sequencing and because not all samples can be sequenced.
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