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17 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
It appears "we’re going to be in a bad situation" as COVID-19 variants spread while schools and businesses continue to reopen in Ontario.

@KenyonWallace on the good, the bad, and the ugly of the latest COVID-19 numbers: thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
First, the good news. Ontario reported a total of 904 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the rolling, seven-day average down to 1,035 cases per day, with the hotspot regions in the GTA all continuing on downward trends for new daily cases. /2 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
The bad news? While overall cases are down, more and more tests are coming back positive for not only the B.1.1.7 variant, but also for B.1.351, a strain which emerged in South Africa, as well as P.1, thought to have originated in Brazil. /3 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
“We probably should be encouraging high-quality N95 usage across the board and we have to have a deeper conversation about aerosol transmission.” /4 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
According to the province’s COVID-19 Science Advisory and Modelling Consensus Tables, B.1.1.7 cases likely already make up between five and 10 per cent of Ontario cases, and the variant will soon become the dominant one. /5 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…

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