OTTAWA, Dec 4 — Canada has discovered a total of 15 cases of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 and severe illness trends across the country could start to rise again, public health officials said on Friday.
Ottawa announced last week it will require people arriving by air from all nations except the United States to take a Covid-19 test, and it expanded a ban on travellers from southern Africa to cover 10 nations. Hours after she spoke, the city of York said a child under 12 had been diagnosed with Omicron. The child had recently travelled to southern Africa, it said in a statement.
“Currently severe illness trends have leveled off, but are still elevated and could begin to rise again, unless we keep infection rates down,” Tam said.
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