After months of declining cases, Ontario public health data is showing an uptick of COVID-19 cases this summer.
While in May, the World Health Organization declared and an end to the COVID-19 emergency — the virus did not go away.cases appear to be on the riseLast August, the percentage of tests coming back positive was moderate at 13.4 per cent, then moved to its highest point over the past 12 months in January at 17.1 per cent. Right now, test positivity is considered low at 7.2 per cent.
Currently, the dominant strain is EG.5, which stems from Omicron. The other new strain is BA2.86 and also comes from Omicron. But Razak, now a professor at the University of Toronto and internist at St. Michael’s Hospital, said BA2.86 is a variant to watch because it’s highly mutated. Bogoch said on our side this fall is that most people in Canada have some COVID immunity alongside years of knowledge and developing tools for protection, like wearing a mask, improving indoor air quality and vaccines.
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