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Canada's first case of new COVID variant confirmed in B.C.

Canada's first case of new COVID variant confirmed in B.C.

CTV
Tuesday, August 29, 2023 9:56 PM GMT

B.C. health officials have confirmed a case of the BA.2.86 strain of SARS-Cov-2, the first such infection to be detected in Canada.

B.C. health officials have confirmed a case of the BA.2.86 strain of SARS-Cov-2, the first such infection to be detected in Canada.

The COVID-19 variant was recently added to the World Health Organization's list of variants under monitoring. 

While it is not currently driving the ongoing uptick in infections in Europe, the U.S. and Canada, BA.2.86 has some mutations that "raise an eyebrow," according to Dr. Isaac Bogoch, a Toronto-based infectious disease expert, who spoke to CTVNews.ca about the variant last week. 

"There were components of this mutation that were reminiscent of BA.2, which we saw much earlier on in the Omicron era," he said. "There were (also) components similar to Delta mutations."

Bogoch also stressed, as did B.C. health officials, that the variant has only recently been detected, and it's too early to say what effect, if any, it will have on the trajectory of COVID-19 in Canada.

"The B.C. Centre for Disease Control has identified British Columbia's first case of a person infected with the BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in an individual from the Fraser Health region who has not travelled outside the province," said provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix in a joint statement Tuesday.

"It is the first known case in Canada of this variant. So far, there does not seem to be increased severity with this strain of COVID and the individual is not hospitalized."

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