sexually transmitted infections dropped.The number of reported cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea plummeted during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, though they crept back up throughout the summer and fall of 2020 as restrictions loosened — and the same could happen again as the province reopens this summer, experts say.In April 2019, Ontario reported 4,188 cases of chlamydia, according to data from Public Health Ontario.
For the same month a year later, there were only 1,637 cases reported. Gonorrhea cases dropped similarly too.“You can see we had kind of normal monthly levels for January, February of 2020.
And then from March, you see a pretty significant drop off of cases, or almost less than half of the number of typical number of.