COVID is still ‘out there’ warns public health official for Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph – CBC
Summer months make it ‘a lot harder for COVID to spread,’ says public health official
Jul 24, 2024
With COVID-19 making headlines south of the border, the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health Associate Medical Officer is doing a check-up of his own.
Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum said the good news is that summertime provides a slight reprieve from COVID concerns, knocking case numbers below what might be expected from fall and winter months.
“But certainly not zero,” he said. “It’s still one of the things out there in the environment.”
Tenenbaum said that summer typically sees more people spending time outdoors, which he said makes it “a lot harder for COVID to spread.”
Recently, Tenenbaum’s agency, as well as Waterloo region public health, temporarily halted their COVID case tracking systems.
The region said changes to the provincial reporting process has caused updates to their Integrated Respiratory Disease Surveillance Dashboard to be paused as of June 1. However, their website said tracking will resume in the fall.
