COVID variants

This colourized image, taken with a scanning electron microscope, shows a dying cell in a COVID-infected patient; the SARS-CoV-2 virus particles are in orange (Courtesy of NIAID)

This colourized image, taken with a scanning electron microscope, shows a dying cell in a COVID-infected patient; the SARS-CoV-2 virus particles are in orange (Courtesy of NIAID)

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Inside the global race against COVID-19 mutations

Workers uncrate hospital beds at a field hospital under construction at Sunnybrook Hospital, in Toronto, Sunday, March 14, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Workers uncrate hospital beds at a field hospital under construction at Sunnybrook Hospital, in Toronto, Sunday, March 14, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

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'Younger and sicker': What Canada's variant-driven third wave looks like

A person wears a mask to protect them from the COVID-19 virus while walking by an open store in Kingston, Ontario, on Wednesday Feb. 10, 2021. Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health unit has moved into the green zone. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

A person wears a mask to protect them from the COVID-19 virus while walking by an open store in Kingston, Ontario, on Wednesday Feb. 10, 2021. Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health unit has moved into the green zone. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

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What is Canada doing to hold the COVID variants at bay?