Kieron Moore: Latest News

wastewater surveillance from municipalities a little more as a potential alternative to track viral activity.Last March, the Ford government invested in just over a dozen research and academic institutions to create a surveillance network to test wastewater samples taken from communities across Ontario.“Together with clinical and public health data, wastewater monitoring can help local public health units identify potential COVID-19 outbreaks and enable more timely decisions about how and where to mobilize resources in response,” environment minister Jeff Yurek said after handing over $12 million in wastewater collecting initiatives. Toronto launches pilot project to collect COVID-19 data from wastewater Two years into the program, an estimated 75 per cent of Ontario’s population is now within the Ministry of the Environment’s (MOE) coverage area for the Wastewater Surveillance Initiative (WSI).In recent weeks, the director of the Ontario Science Advisory Table Dr.

COVID-19 vaccine eligibility, Hamilton Public Health (HPH) is set to ramp up it’s shot capacity at at least one outlet starting Thursday.Following Dr. Kieron Moore’s announcement Wednesday, allowing for those aged 18 through 59 to take on a second booster, the city’s health officials will increase the daily rate of doses at the LimeRidge Mall clinic from 160 doses per day to 250.Appointments for fourth doses through HPH will launch Thursday at 8 a.m.