Currently, 21% of cases detected in the province of Ontario, the most populous in the country, are of the new strain.
THE Canada already records the community transmission of the new variant of coronavirus, a Omicron. This Monday the 13th, the medical director Theresa Tam warned against the strong transmission capacity of the new strain, which could cause an explosion in the number of cases of Covid19. According to her, Ômicron already represents 21% of the cases detected in the province of Ontario, the most populous in Canada, a situation which should be repeated in the rest of the country. Like Tam, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “very worried” about the forecasts published by the Public Health Agency.
Last Friday, the agency revealed that health officials fear a new wave of infections in the coming weeks. The assessment is that the emergence of the variant may quadruple the number of daily cases of the disease, from the current 3.3 thousand to 12 thousand. However, if Ômicron becomes dominant, Canada could have 26 thousand cases per day in mid-January.
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