Ottawa, Canada.
Toronto has detected the first cases of variants from Brazil and South Africa from coronavirus and warned that it may be the beginning of “a new pandemic “ simultaneously with several provinces in Cupyes it has started to relax the restrictions imposed from the end of 2020 to slow down the spread of covid-19.
Toronto Medical Director, Dr. Eileen de Villa, confirmed this Monday in a press conference that detectadored the first cases of Brazilian and South African variants in the city and said that the discovery means that “we are in the transition from pandemic to another, when transmitting a new pandemic “.
Authorities in the largest Canadian city, in whose metropolitan area they live close by 6 million people, about one-sixth of the population of Canada, previously detected the presence The British version.
De Villa said that given the situation pandemic in Toronto, the city can not relax at this time restrictions imposed from the end of 2020 and warned that “if, as expected, the variants becomea dominant strain, there is an even higher probability of increasing cases ”.
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To this situation are added the limited quantities of vaccines against which covid-19 who come to Canada, despite being the country that has acquired the most per capita doses. Ottawa provided more than 440 million doses from different vaccines pero has so far only approved injectables from Pfizer and Moderna.
Despite these problems, the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, assured that by the end of March, Canada haswill be received six million doses from two vaccines.
Today, only 2.39% of the population of Canada received the first dose of vaccines. EFE