Canada Detects First Coronavirus Variant Cases: Health Officials

"The cases are a couple from Durham with no known travel history, exposure or high-risk contacts," the acting chief medical officer for Ontario said in a statement.

Canada Detects First Coronavirus Variant Cases: Health Officials

COVID-19: The cases are a couple from Durham with no known travel history (Representational)

Montreal, Canada:

The first two cases of a particularly infectious coronavirus variant that recently emerged in Britain have been confirmed in Canada, health authorities said Saturday.

"The cases are a couple from Durham with no known travel history, exposure or high-risk contacts," the acting chief medical officer for Ontario said in a statement.

The couple have been placed in isolation, according to the statement, the same day that Ontario reimposed a lockdown for several weeks due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.

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