It's been a great week for COVID-19 vaccine news in Ottawa. Perhaps most concerning of all is the news that the number of COVID-19 cases involving variants has jumped substantially. All three of these identified variants carry the same genetic marker, known as N501Y. The problem is that the seven-per-cent figure assumes the variant cases were evenly spread throughout the month of February. He says there are low levels of the B117 COVID-19 variant detected in the city's sewage.

Source: CBC News March 06, 2021 09:11 UTC