COVID-19: Ontario officials monitoring Omicron data ‘very closely,’ top doctor says

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore said on Friday that the province is following data about the Omicron COVID-19 variant “very closely,” and that they are also in contact with health officials in South Africa, England and Denmark. “We’ll be monitoring the data every single day – we need to absolutely understand the effects of this virus,” Moore said.