‘Stealth Omicron’
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Alberta not currently considering 4th doses as COVID-19 wastewater levels riseWastewater levels of COVID-19 and the positivity rate from restricted PCR tests is up from last week, but Alberta isn’t looking at additional public health measures yet.HealthMar 30, 2022
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COVID-19 deaths surge by 40% as cases drop globally, reports WHOThe number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40% last week, according to a World Health Organization report.HealthMar 30, 2022
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China battles multiple COVID-19 outbreaks, driven by ‘stealth omicron’ variantChina banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit region as the fast-spreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country’s biggest outbreak since the pandemic started.HealthMar 14, 2022
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Canadians embrace travel again as COVID-19 border measures easeAs the Omicron wave began subsiding last month, and as the federal government loosened border measures for air travel in response, many Canadians started to relax.CanadaMar 3, 2022
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Canada has detected BA.2 cases. What we know about this Omicron subvariantThe BA.2 sub-lineage appears to be more contagious than the original Omicron variant and is harder to detect in a PCR test, experts say.CanadaJan 25, 2022
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