What's driving Canada's increase in COVID-19 infections? See the hotspots

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What's driving Canada's increase in COVID-19 infections? See the hotspots
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Some of Canada's largest current COVID-19 outbreaks can be blamed on Canada Day parties in B.C., farm working conditions in Ontario and something nobody has figured out yet in Calgary

The mayor of Kelowna has warned out-of-towners against visiting the city this summer, and B.C.'s provincial health officer said Wednesday that the provinceCALGARY'S MYSTERIOUS UPSWING

Alberta has led the charge for increasing COVID-19 numbers in Canada, now holding the dubious distinction of being the province with"They had controlled the pandemic really well until about a month ago," Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, a Toronto-based infectious disease expert, told CTV News Channel on Wednesday.is seeing its curve bend upward.

What concerns the experts, though, is that it's not clear what's driving the increasing caseload. In other Canadian hotspots, there is a place or activity or gathering generally considered to be the source of the outbreak. That's not the case here.of COVID-19 in Calgary as of Wednesday – approximately 10 per cent of the Canadian total.

They speak their own language and mostly live technology-free lives – and as of last week, they're at the centre of COVID-19 activity in the Prairies.

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