COVID-19: Canada reaches more than 3 million total cases, a million in last month
CTV
More than three million cases of COVID-19 have been documented since the start of the pandemic, according to CTVNews.ca’s case tracker, with at least a million of those cases occurring in the past month.
As of 1:30 p.m. EST on Jan. 28, 2022, a total of 3,007,264 infections have been recorded in Canada since the first case was confirmed on Jan. 25, 2020.
But the actual number of infections is widely accepted by medical experts to be significantly greater.
“There is a degree of underestimation due to current testing policies,” Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam said in a press briefing last week.
The earliest Omicron cases in Canada were detected at the end of November 2021, with COVID-19 infections experiencing an unprecedented surge two weeks later. At the time, Canada still had less than two million cases in total. It took only one month for a million more cases to be confirmed.
