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A steady increase in COVID-19-related admissions to hospitals and intensive care units continues to weigh heavily on Canada’s health-care system even as overall case counts begin to decline, the country’s chief public health officer said Saturday.
Dr. Theresa Tam outlined a more than 20-per-cent increase in both hospitalizations and ICU patients over a one-week stretch, as well as a much more modest decline in overall infection counts over the same period.
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As it turns out, the variant has already been here for weeks. Another lesson unlearned
Author of the article: Chris Selley
Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Air India flight 185 arrives from New Delhi, narrowly beating the cut-off after Canada s government temporarily barred passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days, at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada April 23, 2021. Photo by Jennifer Gauthier /Reuters
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Health Canada had a hell of a month last week. Its top docs and the minister responsible tried their best, over and over, to pooh-pooh any emergency measures to prevent or at least slow the B.1.617 COVID-19 variant’s arrival on Canadian shores from India, where cases are soaring. Not for the first time over the past year, they looked foolish. (As it turns out, the variant has already been here for weeks.)
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OTTAWA Canada announced a 30-day ban on all flights from India and Pakistan effective Thursday as COVID-19 cases continue surging in the two countries.