‘Uptick’ in COVID-19 cases on P.E.I. may or may not be 7th wave – CBC

COVID-19 cases increasing, but hospitalizations steady

Jul 12, 2022

It is too early to say if P.E.I. is experiencing a seventh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Health P.E.I. CEO Dr. Michael Gardam.

A seventh wave has been declared by health officials in Ontario, Quebec and B.C., and experts in other provinces are warning one could be coming.

Case numbers and positivity rates at testing clinics are rising on P.E.I., but Gardam said it is difficult to declare a wave until you are well into it.

“There’s a bit of an uptick, but nobody knows where that’s going, if two weeks from now the rates will start going down again,” he said.

“You only know you’re in a wave once you’re past it. Until then you don’t know whether it’s going to go up or go down.”

P.E.I. releases COVID-19 case numbers weekly. In the week ending July 5 there were an average of 153 per day, a 72 per cent increase over two weeks earlier. Hospitalizations have remained steady.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-covid-seventh-wave-gardam-1.6517663