Canada has recorded its 30,000th COVID-19 death since the pandemic began in early 2020, surpassing a grim milestone just as the country braces for the potential fallout of surging infections driven by the Omicron variant.
Ontario reported nine more COVID-19 deaths Thursday morning, pushing Canada's total just over 30,000 as Ottawa and some provinces tightened public health measures to stave threats posed by a more transmissible virus.
The trajectory "dropped dramatically after the vaccines came into effect, and continues to be at a sustained at a lower level," she said in a news conference Monday. She said the much faster spread of the Delta variant, which took off in Canada in the spring, contributed to more severe illness, particularly among those not immunized, adding there may be more unreported deaths from undetected cases.
Provinces have ramped up third-dose rollouts amid the Omicron threat, though scientists are still racing to learn how quickly the variant spreads, whether it causes more severe disease and how much it might evade vaccine protection. "But at this point, the threat of really rapid spread is so high that it's really crucial for people to get their boosters."
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