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Covid-19, after ‘Eris’ a new variant pops up

by Marzio Pelù August 20, 2023August 20, 2023

TORONTO – The Public Health Agency of Canada is monitoring a new highly mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19, that has been detected in at least four countries, but no cases have been detected in Canada so far. It is “BA.2.86”, a “variant under monitoring” due to the “large number of mutations identified”: cases have been recorded in the United States, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Israel, although as of Friday fewer than ten confirmed cases have been reported worldwide. And none, we said, in Canada. (more…)

New variant: Covid returns to show up also in Canada, US and Italy

by Marzio Pelù August 9, 2023August 9, 2023

TORONTO – We return to talk about Covid-19. What seemed like a distant (bad) memory, reappears with a new “code name”: EG.5, i.e. a subvariant of the coronavirus on the rise in some parts of the world and “landed” also in Canada, at least since May according to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). (more…)

Schools between record infections and Omicron variant: 345 new cases of COVID-19

by Mariella Policheni December 7, 2021August 25, 2023

TORONTO – There is little to be cheerful about. The number of Ontario schools with at least one active case of Covid-19 has reached its highest point so far this year, infections over the weekend have soared to 345 and the new Omicron variant has appeared for the first time in an educational institution in the province. (more…)

Alarm in Canada for the new Omicron variant

by Francesco Veronesi November 28, 2021August 25, 2023

TORONTO – The new Omicron variant scares Canada. In our country, as in the rest of the world, concern is growing about this new strain of covid-19 discovered for the first time in South Africa that has already been identified in Germany, England, Italy and other European countries. (more…)

Ontario, new record of infections: over 500. “The Delta variant leads the fourth wave “

by Marzio Pelù August 12, 2021August 25, 2023

TORONTO – They had just said it yesterday and so it is: Ontario has arrived in the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, as today’s data confirm. 513 new cases in one day. A number that exceeds, for the first time since mid-June, the 500 daily infections, and which marks a daily increase compared to Wednesday, when 324 reports were recorded (321 on Tuesday, 325 on Monday and 423 on Sunday). In any case, more than double the 213 cases reported a week ago. Only on June 13, a higher number was registered than today: 530 cases. The seven-day average is now 375, up sharply from 332 a day ago and 198 a week ago. (more…)

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Canadian National Multilingual Newsgroup

Tag: variant’’

Covid-19, after ‘Eris’ a new variant pops up

New variant: Covid returns to show up also in Canada, US and Italy

Schools between record infections and Omicron variant: 345 new cases of COVID-19

Alarm in Canada for the new Omicron variant

Ontario, new record of infections: over 500. “The Delta variant leads the fourth wave “

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