Dr. Isaac Bogoch, who is also a member of Ontario's COVID-19 vaccine task force, said as of right now, we know "surprisingly little" about the new variant. Health officials in British Columbia also identified one person infected with the variant, bringing Canada's overall total to four. As the world continues to learn more about the new COVID-19 variant, first identified in the United Kingdom, he's urging people to continue taking precautions and going about life normally. "It's disheartening and frustrating to know that tens of thousands of life-saving vaccine doses have been sitting in freezers," Horwath said in a statement. A nurse disposes of a used syringe after administering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a long-term care home worker during a clinic at St. Michael’s Hospital on Dec. 22.

Source: CBC News December 28, 2020 18:11 UTC