TORONTO — Ontario’s chief medical officer of well being is about to talk to the media this morning, after Canada’s first two instances of a brand new COVID-19 variant of concern had been detected within the province.
Dr. Kieran Moore is predicted to discuss the instances of the Omicron variant, which had been present in sufferers in Ottawa who had just lately been in Nigeria.
The World Well being Group has cautioned that the variant might be extra contagious than others.
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It was first detected in South Africa, and has been linked to a spike in instances there.
The federal authorities on Friday barred guests from seven southern African international locations in an effort to forestall the variant from crossing into Canada, however Nigeria was not amongst them.
The province has referred to as on Ottawa to implement point-of-arrival COVID-19 testing for everybody coming into Canada no matter the place they got here from, as a substitute of simply requiring them to get examined earlier than leaving for Canada.
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