A second Burnaby school has been hit by a COVID-19 variant.
Parents at Burnaby Central Secondary got a notice last Wednesday evening telling them someone with a variant type of COVID-19 had been at the school on Feb. 22.
The letter followed one to École Marlborough Elementary parents two days earlier reporting someone positive for a COVID-19 variant had been at that school on Feb. 16 and 17.
In a news release Sunday, Fraser Health said it is working with the Burnaby school district to manage an exposure to a COVID-19 “variant of concern” at Marlborough but provided no information about the Burnaby Central variant exposure.
Requests to Fraser Health have not yet yielded in any more information about the Burnaby Central situation.
Fraser Health says variants are “more easily transmissible” but don’t interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines, nor the ability to test for the virus.
As of Friday, 250 cases of variants had been reported in B.C., according to a briefing by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.
Most (222) of the cases have been the B117 variant first identified in the U.K., while the B1351 variant identified in South Africa accounted for (28) cases.
Neither the Burnaby Central letter nor the Marlborough notice specified which variant had been detected at those schools.
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