Over the past four weeks, the percentage of BA.2.20 cases has remained stable, at approximately 5.5 per cent
, but Public Health Ontario noted that testing eligibility is currently restricted to high-risk populations and that the proportion is not representative of all BA.2 cases in the province.
“But recognizing that vaccines still seem very effective, that levels are receding … and that wastewater data is down, hospitalizations are down, ICU stays are down, really suggest that community transmission of this does not necessarily change the game altogether. It’s not going to lead to some sort of epidemiologic change in terms of increased transmission.”
“BA.2 was sufficiently different from BA.1 that, when it came in, it did move BA.1 out, but BA.2.20 is not doing the same thing to BA.2,” Evans said. The public health unit with the highest proportion of BA.2.20 cases was Toronto Public Health, with 18.8 per cent of cases, followed by Middlesex-London Health Unit, with 12.7 per cent.
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