The provincial agency confirmed the cases on Tuesday but did not say when and where it detected XBB.1.5
, which scientists say is more transmissible than other variants but may not cause more severe disease.to Dec. 10, according to a Dec. 21 report from the BCCDC on variants of concern. The report noted that XBB.1.5 had been detected in the Fraser Health Authority, which oversees a vast area to the east and south of Vancouver, but did not indicate how many cases had been found.
The federal government’s public case dashboard previously reported that XBB.1.5 was first detected in 0.1 per cent of the nearly 3,000 genomic tests done across the country the week of Nov. 20. The latest publicly available data, from the week of Dec. 11, show it was found in 0.6 per cent of the thousand or so samples tested.
In an interview broadcast Monday, B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry told Global News that officials have not seen the subvariant “take off yet.”
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