Ottawa, Canada.
Toronto discovered the first cases of this variants from Brazil and South Africa of the coronavirus and warned that this could be the beginning of “a new pandemic “ simultaneously with multiple provinces of CanaAfter that, the restrictions imposed from the end of 2020 onwards began spread of Covid-19.
Toronto’s chief physician, the Dr. Eileen de Villa, confirmed this Monday at a press conference to detectloved the first instances of the Brazilian and South African variants in the city and said the discovery means that “we are in the transition from a pandemic to another, on the shipment of a new pandemic “.
The authorities of the largest Canadian city, in whose metropolitan area live close by 6 million people, about one sixth of the population of Canada, previously had the presence of the British variant.
The Villa stated that given the situation of the pandemic in Torontocan not relax the city at the moment imposed restrictions since the end of 2020 and warned that “if, as expected, the variants la dominant species, there is an even greater chance of it increase in cases “.
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Added to this situation are the limited amounts of vaccines against COVID-19 that come to Canada despite being the country with the most doses per capita. Ottawa has more than 440 million doses from different vaccines pero has only approved injectables from Pfizer and Moderna.
Despite these problems, the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has assured that in late March Canada haswill be received six million doses of the two vaccines.
At present, only 2.39% of the population is from Canada has received the first dose of vaccines. EFE