Three COVID-19 cases at three schools in Surrey have been identified as the variant first reported in the U.K., which officials in B.C. Jordan Tinney, the superintendent responsible for 73,000 students and 130 schools in Surrey, said in a tweet on Saturday that the cases were at AHP Matthew Elementary School, Tamanawis Secondary School and Ecolé Woodward Hill Elementary School. All the cases were previously announced as exposure events at the schools in either late January or earlier this month. "Testing for the variant takes longer than standard COVID-19 testing, which is why we have received this information now," read the letters. In late January, a student at a secondary school in Maple Ridge also tested positive for a more transmissible variant.

Source: CBC News February 21, 2021 03:11 UTC