Speaking at his weekly news conference in Whitehorse, Dr. Brendan Hanley says lab tests late Tuesday confirmed the P.1 variant, which is the strain first identified in Brazil.
Hanley says the arrival of the P.1 variant is a concern, in part because there is little information about how the strain responds to the Moderna vaccine, which has been administered to about 70 per cent of Yukon residents. Those include anyone under age 18 and roughly half of residents aged 18 to 29, who have shown less enthusiasm for the vaccination than the nearly 90 per cent of seniors who have received a shot.
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