90 reports of adverse events for a patient who received COVID-19 vaccines; 31 cases of UK COVID-19 variant identified

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says there have been 90 reports of adverse events for a patient in Canada who received one of the COVID-19 vaccines.

She said those include all health problems after the vaccine was given and may not all be related to the vaccine.

Twenty-seven of those events, or one in 22,000 doses injected, were serious, including allergic reactions.

31 cases of the COVID-19 variant first identified in the UK reported in Canada

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says there have now been 31 cases of the COVID-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom, and three of the one first found in South Africa.

Dr. Tam says the fact that the variants are now circling in the community without a known connection to travel is concerning.

The news comes just after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there is some evidence that the U.K. variant may be more deadly than the original virus.