Canada On Guard Against New Virus Strain Behind COVID-19

Canada On Guard Against New Virus Strain Behind COVID-19
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam provides an update on the COVID-19 pandemic during a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 30, 2020. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Canada’s top doctor says federal officials are mobilizing their genome sequencing networks in an effort to catch a potentially more infectious strain of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the strain has not yet been detected in Canada.