The rollout of treatments, wastewater data and an announcement on booster shots on Tuesday are key this week
This comes as the World Health Organization confirmed the more transmissible BA. 2 Omicron subvariant has now taken over around the world, and as Quebec and Ontario announce they are in a sixth wave of the pandemic.This handout file photo provided on Nov. 16, 2021, courtesy of Pfizer, shows the making of its experimental COVID-19 antiviral pills, Paxlovid, in Freiburg, Germany.
Scenes from the COVID-19 booster clinic at the Vancouver Convention clinic in Vancouver, on Jan. 13, 2022.It’s going to start getting confusing talking about COVID-19 vaccination. Are you boosted, double boosted, triple shot or quadruple shot? The government’s PCR testing capacity is 20,000, but only around 5,000 tests a day are now conducted — and only on potential high risk cases or people working in high-risk settings.
The release of more of this data over the next few weeks will provide an insight into the pandemic in Metro Vancouver.Photo by Jason PayneAt the end of the day, the government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C. has been about keeping people out of hospital and not overloading an already stretched medical system.Article content
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