The growing threat of COVID-19 variants in Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador is back in full lockdownafter seeing a record number of new COVID-19 cases in the last week. A scheduled provincial election switchedto mail-in ballots only 12 hours before people were supposed to go to the polls. The new cases involve the coronavirus variant that first appeared in the U.K.

Today on Front Burner, CBC St. John's reporter Peter Cowandiscussesthe developments in his provinceand the lessons they may holdfor the rest of Canada.