TORONTO – Experts’ negative predictions seem to come true, day after day: “thanks” to the Omicron variant, Ontario recorded over 4,000 new cases of Covid-19 today, the highest daily total in almost eight months. Provincial health officials have indeed detected 4,177 new infections, up from 3,301 on Saturday and 1,476 just a week ago. Today’s tally is the highest in the province since last April 23, when 4,505 new infections were reported. The seven-day moving average of daily cases is now word at 2,542: a week ago it was at 1,236. (more…)
TORONTO – Skyrocketing infections and more than thirty thousand deaths from Covid-19 throughout Canada since the beginning of the pandemic: these are the sad data of today, negative on all fronts. Let’s start with Ontario, which reported the highest daily count of new cases in seven months. The province has in fact registered 2,421 new infections (53% of which of the Omicron variant), with an impressive increase compared to 1,808 new cases. Earlier this week, 1,476 new cases had been registered on Monday, 1,536 on Tuesday and 1,429 on Wednesday. (more…)
TORONTO – Non c’è più tempo da perdere, quantomeno più di quello perso finora fra esitazioni e non-decisioni. Il governo provinciale ha annunciato, ieri, che da lunedì sarà aperta la somministrazione della terza dose di vaccino a tutti i cittadini dai 18 anni in su. Non solo: sarà possibile farla a distanza di tre mesi (e non più sei) dalla seconda. Un’accelerata prima auspicata e poi caldeggiata dall’Ontario Science Table che proprio ieri era tornato alla carica, invocando misure rapide per frenare l’impennata dei casi dovuta, con ogni probabilità, alla variante Omicron, molto più infettiva della Delta. Ma andiamo con ordine…
TORONTO – There is no more time to waste, at least more than that lost so far between hesitations and non-decisions. The provincial government announced today that the third dose of the vaccine will be open to all citizens aged 18 and over from Monday. Not only that: it will be possible to do it three months (and no longer six) from the second one. An acceleration first hoped for and then supported by the Ontario Science Table which just today returned to call for rapid measures to curb the surge in cases due, in all probability, to the Omicron variant, much more infectious than the Delta. But let’s go in order. (more…)
TORONTO – Other 1,536 new infections recorded today in Ontario against 1,476 on Sunday and 887 on last Monday. With 38,221 tests processed in the last 24 hours, Ontario therefore achieves a positive rate of 5.5%, up significantly from 3.5% a week ago. The seven-day moving average of new infections has now met 1,328, up from 940 on Monday. (more…)