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World is ‘blind’ to COVID spread, WHO warns. Where does Canada stand?
World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to maintain surveillance of coronavirus infections, saying the world was “blind” to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates.“As many countries reduce testing, WHO is receiving less and less information about transmission and sequencing,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference at the U.N. agency’s headquarters in Geneva.“This makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution.” Canada lacks robust COVID-19 detection system amid 6th wave.