Canada COVID Latest

• Canada’s top doctors still recommend wearing a mask — even as provinces ditch mandates

  Despite provinces increasingly dropping their COVID-19 mask requirements, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said on Friday that wearing a mask is still a very good idea.

  Canada

  Mar 18, 2022
  
• Severe illness not rising as fast as ‘enormous’ number of Omicron infections: Tam

  While evidence indicates Omicron's hospitalization risk is lower compared with Delta, the new variant’s rapid acceleration is driving a rise in hospital admissions, Tam said.

  Canada

  Jan 7, 2022
  
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• As Omicron spreads, provinces struggle with rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations 

  Canadians in some parts of the country saw surgeries postponed, access to COVID-19 testing reduced and a return to class delayed.

  Canada

  Jan 4, 2022
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• Omicron COVID-19 variant outlook for Canada has feds ‘very concerned,’ Trudeau says

  Canada is currently seeing a Delta-driven resurgence of COVID-19 cases — but if Omicron takes hold, that variant could drive infections up to unmanageable levels, data suggests.

  Canada

  Dec 13, 2021
• When is the pandemic over? Globally, it’s hard to say. In Canada — soon

  'I think that we can open up safely and get to our previous lives now,' said one infectious disease specialist.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2021