COVID-19 after close to two years of off and on restrictions dealing with the affliction but the city’s top doc says it’s simply not over.Ontario’s science table shares that prognosis with late June data, shared on social media last week, showing that wastewater signals, test positivity and hospitalizations from the virus are on the rise.It likely means the province is already in another wave of COVID-19 driven by the highly infectious BA.5 Omicron subvariant.
Ontario municipal leaders call for action amid several temporary ER closures “The COVID virus is going to be around with us for a long time yet to come,” Richardson told 900 CHML’s Hamilton Today.“We are going to continue to see these new variants emerge as it goes forward and we’re all going to need to continue to pay attention to it.”Last week, five of Hamilton Public Health’s key COVID-19 monitoring indicators showed increasing trends, including the seven-day average of new cases, which has moved from 33 reported in mid-June to 62 per day on July 3.Active institutional outbreaks have essentially doubled from eight reported on June 21 to 19 as of July 5.
Wastewater viral signals detecting COVID-19 in samples have been steadily increasing since June 1, closing in on levels seen in the initial Omicron wave in mid-January.
Dr. Timothy Sly, epidemiologist and professor emeritus with Toronto Metropolitan University, has no doubts the province is in another wave, with hospitalization rates going up about a hundred a month and the continued proliferation of the Omicron variant family.Despite signs that the current variant is less dangerous to most people, it is sending others to hospital, putting more pressure on medical services at a time when staffing is low and.