An infectious disease expert says “there’s no doubt” a sixth wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across Ontario, and it’s being driven by the highly transmissible BA.2 subvariant at the same time restrictions have been lifted across the province.
“We’ve opened the doors to a new variant,” Colin Furness, an expert in infectious disease epidemiology from the University of Toronto, told CTV National News. “Then eliminated all of our defences.”
