The transmissibility of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in Canada — where it may soon become the dominant strain — is seen as potentially problematic by infectious disease specialists.
In Ontario, the only province that has tracked its reproductive rate (R value), the variant is infecting almost four times as many people as the Delta variant. “It’s safe to say that this is a very fast-moving variant that’s rapidly taking over and will be probably the dominant variant here in Ontario by the end of this week,” said Dr.
Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at Toronto General Hospital. Read more: Omicron COVID variant is ‘scary,’ Trudeau says, but summer will be ‘better’ In Ontario, recent data released by the Science Advisory Table