Ontario reports record-breaking 4,736 new COVID-19 cases as total count surpasses 400,000 Hamilton reported the discovery of the B.1.351 variant first detected in South Africa on Thursday.
On Wednesday, public health revealed the city’s first two cases of the P.1 variant (first detected in Brazil.)Along with the B.1.1.7 variant (first detected in the U.K.) already established and spreading across the city in recent weeks, there have now been 1,490 positively screened cases with a variant.