Alberta Detects First Case of New CCP Virus Variant

A flight attendant wears personal protective equipment as she walks through the back part of a near empty plane traveling from Calgary to Vancouver, Canada, on June 9, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press

Alberta has become the latest province in Canada to have detected a COVID-19 case linked to the new variant of the CCP virus found in the UK.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, reported about the case in a press briefing on Monday. She said the infected individual had recently arrived in the country from the UK.