Covid Transmission

• Mix of Ottawa sports game, social events led to series of COVID-19 cases, school disruptions

  Ottawa Public Health's latest COVID-19 case study shows how the coronavirus spread from a sports game and a social gathering among unvaccinated people.

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  Oct 27, 2021
  
• Risk of getting COVID-19 from grocery store surfaces is low, University of Guelph study finds

  A team of scientists swabbed hundreds of high-contact surfaces in grocery stores during the second wave of the pandemic and none of them tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

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  Oct 5, 2021
  
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• Fraser Health adds nine high-transmission neighbourhoods to vaccine priority list

  Fraser Health has also dropped the age requirement to age 30 and over for the 10 neighbourhoods with high COVID-19 transmission announced last month.

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  May 6, 2021
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• Why don’t children spread COVID-19 as much as adults? Manitoba experts weigh in

  With COVID-19 case numbers once again on the rise and more cases popping up among school-aged children, infectious disease experts are trying to alleviate parents' fears.

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  May 5, 2021
• COVID-19 transmission goes up among B.C. kids when schools on break: data

  The province has released new data showing rates of transmission among kids throughout the school year, starting Sept. 7 and going up until April 9.

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  Apr 15, 2021
• COVID-19 claims higher among elementary school teachers than secondary teachers: WorkSafeBC

  The WorkSafeBC data does not distinguish where the teacher contracted the virus.

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  Mar 16, 2021
• 15 LHSC physicians and staff have COVID-19, internal memo shows 55 more under investigation

  London Health Sciences Centre CEO Dr. Paul Woods says in an internal email that many staff COVID-19 cases are the result of direct staff-to-staff transmission.

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  Nov 19, 2020
• Is toilet flushing a COVID-19 risk? Experts say ‘focus on interventions that matter’

  A new study suggests COVID-19 might be transmissible if a toilet seat isn't closed when flushing. Canadian experts are unconvinced.

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  Jun 18, 2020