Canada’s coronavirus curve flattens but worrying trends emerge – National Post
Health officials say the virus spreads quickly in environments often where vulnerable people are gathered, such as seniors’ residences and prisons
OTTAWA — Canada’s coronavirus curve is flat but worrying trends are emerging, particularly outbreaks in vulnerable indigenous communities, the country’s top medical officer said on Thursday.
The daily death toll in Canada has risen by 10 per cent or more only once in the last 11 days. The total number of people killed by the coronavirus increased by six per cent to 3,082 in a day, official data showed on Thursday.
“The COVID-19 curve is flat … (but) we have to be very cautious going down the other side of the epidemic curve,” chief public health officer Theresa Tam told a briefing.
“Already on this path we have seen some worrisome transmission events emerging,” she said, citing increasing cases in remote aboriginal communities in several of Canada’s 10 provinces.
