TORONTO --
Greater than three million circumstances of COVID-19 have been documented because the begin of the pandemic, in keeping with CTVNews.ca’s case tracker, with at the very least one million of these circumstances occurring previously month.
As of 1:30 p.m. EST on Jan. 28, 2022, a complete of three,007,264 infections have been recorded in Canada because the first case was confirmed on Jan. 25, 2020.
However the precise variety of infections is broadly accepted by medical consultants to be considerably larger.
“There's a diploma of underestimation as a consequence of present testing insurance policies,” Canada’s chief public well being officer, Dr. Theresa Tam mentioned in a press briefing final week.
The earliest Omicron circumstances in Canada have been detected on the finish of November 2021, with COVID-19 infections experiencing an unprecedented surge two weeks later. On the time, Canada nonetheless had lower than two million circumstances in complete. It took just one month for one million extra circumstances to be confirmed.
The extraordinary velocity with which Omicron unfold in the course of the winter holidays overwhelmed provinces scrambling to maintain up with demand for testing. Coverage adjustments within the new yr restricted who was in a position to get a take a look at in lots of components of Canada and meant nearly all of the inhabitants not certified.
Folks wait in line to obtain a COVID-19 take a look at in Montreal, Tuesday, December 21, 2021, because the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the globe. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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