The first two confirmed cases of a recently discovered Covid-19 infectious variant in the United Kingdom have been confirmed in Canada, health authorities said Saturday.
In a statement, Barbara Yaffe, acting chief medical officer for Ontario, said, “The cases from Durham are twins who have no travel history, transparency or high – risk connections.”
Health officials said the couple were left alone, the same day Ontario imposed a lockout for several weeks due to an increase in cases of coronavirus in the province since early December.
“This reinforces the need for Ontarians to stay at home for as long as possible and to continue to follow all public health advice, including nationwide closure measures beginning with the -today, “said Dr. Barbara Yaffe.
Scientists say the new UK virus is about 40% -70% more mobile than the original species. Several other countries, including Australia, Italy, and the Netherlands say they have found cases of the new strain.
Ontario reported 4,301 new cases over the past two days Saturday, with the province seeing more than 2,000 cases daily for 12 consecutive days.
Last week, Canada extended to 6 January a ban on British-dominated passenger flights and extended screening and monitoring measures to South African-born passengers, citing growth the opposite is more contagious.
Scientists say there is no evidence that currently used vaccines – including those made by Pfizer and BioNtech – or other coronavirus strains will not improve the protection of the virus. this new.
Canada began rolling out the Pfizer vaccine earlier this month and began rolling out the Moderna coronavirus vaccine nationwide last Thursday.
Canada has so far reported 541,616 cases of coronavirus, including 14,800 deaths.
Meanwhile, more than 79.85 million people have been reported to be infected with Covid-19 worldwide and 1,752,116 have died. Diseases have been reported in more than 210 countries and regions since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
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