Ont. reports 4,383 new COVID-19 cases today; highest single-day total since April
Of the news cases confirmed today, 176 involve those who are partially vaccinated, 222 involve people with an unknown vaccination status, 746 involve those who are unvaccinated, and 3,243 involve people who are considered fully vaccinated with two doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Omicron is blurring true picture of COVID-19 cases. But experts say there are other ways to capture it
As demand drastically increases for COVID-19 testing across the country, experts say it will quickly become harder to get an exact picture of Omicron case counts in Canada.
And that means health authorities are likely soon going to have to rely more on hospitalization numbers as the main indicator of the extent of the impact of the new coronavirus variant.
“This is such a hyper-contagious disease that it was completely foreseeable … that the rate of spread would overwhelm the testing capacity that we have, as is already happening,” said Raywat Deonandan, an epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa.
Despite new COVID-19 restrictions, no one is eligible for the new federal benefit
As new restrictions sweep the country just days before Christmas, a new benefit meant to help workers is locking them out of receiving support because of its specific wording.
Last week, parliament passed Bill C-2, which created the Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit (CWLB), a program intended to give $300 a week to anyone who can’t work because of a COVID-19 lockdown.
