Concerns over community spread of new coronavirus variants in Canada, top doctor says | FULL

Canada's Chief Public Officer of Health Dr. Theresa Tam said she's concerned over the rapid spread of the new coronavirus variants in the country.

At Tuesday's coronavirus briefing, Tam said there are at least four Canadian provinces reporting evidence of community transmission and outbreak activity related to the variants.

Last week, Newfoundland and Labrador cancelled in-person voting for its provincial election in response to an alarming rise of COVID-19 cases in the province, related to the variant first detected in the U.K.

Chief medical health officer Dr. Janice Fitzgerald said Friday that the B.1.1.7. variant of the virus, which was first discovered in the United Kingdom, is behind the sudden spike in infections and accounts for all 248 new cases reported over the past seven days.

Canada added 1,157 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 18 new fatalities, as Canadians across much of the country celebrated Family Day on Monday.

The new cases bring the total number of infections in the country to 826,671, however, several regions did not release any new COVID-19 data due to the holiday.

To date, the virus has claimed 21,311 lives in Canada.

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[doubledown]

A year suffering, same story from over paid do nothings.

[TheMajickNumber]

Concerns over community spread of Liberal variants in Canada, top doctor says.

[rickbateman]

The village where the ‘boy who cried wolf’ clued in a lot faster than most Canadians are over this crap.

[tehchaluh]

Doesn't almost every virus have some sort of variant?

[AA-zrwu]

"But I was only saying what the government made me say!" 50 years from now, this will be on a lot of tombstones.

[brandonpaul]

Why is this liar still telling us what to do

[robinm]

Ah yes, the "new variants."
The UK one is especially nefarious. There have been cases where victims developed a thick Cockney accent, bad teeth and a profound hankering for tea and crumpets! Diabolical little variant!

Seriously though, this dystopian nightmare is NEVER going to end. They'll just keep conjuring up "new variants" to keep it afloat forever.

"Two weeks to flatten the curve"

has turned into
"However long it takes to flatten the middle class."

[mrunknown]

Gotta be running out of fake stats by now?

[elzbietajurecka]

I am concerned for mental and physical health of people. Open the healthcare so we can see the real doctor ... not on the phone! Appointments with doctors on the phone are useless!

[Kurie]

New variants & new vaccines every year. Sounds awfully like the yearly flu 😅

[anthonydin]

I guess they haven’t realized that we’re already on to them. Stop the lies.

[davidbrennan]

COVID recovery rates from the CDC:
0-19 = 99.997%
20-49 = 99.98%
50-69 = 99.5%
70+ = 94.6%

[bto]

Tam says what? Be scared? I thought that she said that yesterday and the day before and the day the day before and the day the day before and the day the day before and the day

[wayneschuster]

WHO makes up this stuff and these clowns repeat it.

[AlexanderReef]

Cases are going down in Canada, in the U.S. and in the world, but they keep the FUD drumroll. Just let us live. Variants are inevitable - lockdowns are not. Yes, we feel bloody tired of you!

[rikro]

Has anyone actually done their own research? Mortality rate is low for COVID-19, they need to stop blowing this out of proportion.

[neilyakuza]

The curve is naturally going down, not because of lockdowns!

[smokedpickles]

I can't bare watching them or hearing them. These muppet 'representatives' don't represent me or anyone I know. What a disaster

[MonzonMedia]

Increase in variants...Let's open schools! Won't be surprised of another lock down next month. smh.

[dillingersam]

Anita Indira Anand & Theresa Tam and Justin Trudeau - The 3 Stoogers 😅