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If dangerous COVID variants were spreading widely in Ontario, would we know? Why scientists are worried – Toronto Star
A look at what the province is and isn’t doing as three particular strains raise concern of faster transmission.

With increasing reports of new, more dangerous COVID-19 variants in Ontario, experts say the province urgently needs more genomic sequencing, faster results, and policies that stifle the virus’s opportunities to evolve — a situation reminiscent of the earliest days of the pandemic, when the disease outstripped our ability to track and control it.
The province has ramped up surveillance for three red-flag “variants of concern,” which were first detected in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil. Unlike…
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