Coronavirus: ‘extremely low’ risk of infection from handling mail, Health Canada says


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It is extremely unlikely for Covid-19 to spread via contaminated post, Canada’s health authorities said, after their Chinese counterparts suggested this may be the source of an Omicron case found in Beijing over the weekend. The Beijing Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday said traces of the Omicron variant had been found on a letter mailed from Toronto and received by the person, and suggested that the letter could have been the source of the infection. On Tuesday, the Beijing CDC said a close contact of that person had also tested positive – the second local case of...