With health authorities across Canada on high alert for another wave of COVID-19 as health restrictions continue to ease, the Atlantic provinces as well as Northwest Territories are reporting more COVID-19 cases per capita than anywhere else in Canada or the U.S.
TORONTO -- With health authorities across Canada on high alert for another wave of COVID-19 as health restrictions continue to ease, the Atlantic provinces as well as the Northwest Territories are reporting more COVID-19 cases per capita than anywhere else in Canada or the U.S.
Experts say the high case-counts in these regions is likely due to the fact that some of these provinces have fewer restrictions on who is eligible for a COVID-19 test.comparing Canadian provinces and territories with U.S. states, Prince Edward Island is reporting an average of 350.6 daily cases over the last seven days as of Saturday. That translates to 2,216.6 cases per million, which is more than every other jurisdiction on both sides of the border.
The looser testing criteria in some of these provinces "would explain much of the difference, possibly all of it," Colin Furness, an expert in infectious disease epidemiology from the University of Toronto, told CTVNews.ca in an email on Friday.strict PCR testing eligibility criteria. Furness said the "lower population immunity in areas that have been successful with COVID in the first several waves" may be another factor that explains the high cases reported in these regions.
In late 2021, when COVID-19 cases surged across Canada due to the rise of the Omicron variant, many provinces started restricting access to laboratory tests as testing capacity became strained.
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