Canada: COVID at ‘critical’ levels, personal contact discouraged

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau receives his vaccine and orders millions of doses for 2022-2024.

New daily cases of COVID-19 in Canada could almost double to more than 15,000 from 8,600 by the end of April unless stricter measures are taken as new coronavirus variants spread, health officials warned on Friday. The officials told a briefing that if people cut the number of personal contacts by 20-30 percent, the number of cases could drop to about 4,500. “Elevated case counts and severe illness trends remind us we are still in a right race between vaccines and variants and our actions matter,” said Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam.