Ottawa, Canada.
Toronto detected the first cases of variants from Brazil and South Africa from’ Crown virus and warned that it may be the start of “a new pandemic “ at the same time as several provinces of Canagives beginning to relax the restrictions imposed since the end of 2020 to slow down the spread of covid-19.
The medical director of Toronto, the Dr. Eileen de Vila, Confirmed this Monday at a press conference that they have detectat the first cases 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, to the transmission of a new pandemic “.
Authorities in the largest Canadian city in the metropolitan area live near 6 million people, about one-sixth of the population of Canada, they had previously detected the presence of the variant of the United Kingdom.
De Vila stated that given the situation of the pandemic in Toronto, The city can not relax at this time restrictions imposed since the end of 2020 and warned that “if as expected, the variants become lthe dominant strain, there is an even higher probability of increase in cases “.
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To this situation are added the limited quantities of vaccines against COVID-19[feminine que estan arribant al Canadà tot i ser el país que ha adquirit més dosi per càpita. Ottawa s’ha assegurat més de 440 milions de dosis de diferents vacunes pbre només ha aprovat de moment els injectables de Pfizer i Moderna.
Malgrat aquests problemes, el primer ministre canadenc, Justin Trudeau, ha assegurat que per a finals de març, Canadà haBra rebut a sis milions de dosis de les dues vacunes.
A data d’avui, només el 2,39% de la població de Canadà ha rebut la primera dosi de les vacunes. EFE