The Star’s signal map uses data sourced from each GTA public health unit and pulled into one location, showing trends in sewersheds or wastewater catchment areas.
show that cases are rising once again, driven by the BA.5 variant, following a steady decline over the last month, including in the GTA.that, combined with other indicators, this does point to the start of a new summer wave.
“But it does not look like it has the intensity in terms of amplitude or pace of what we saw with the start of the Omicron wave. How fast it will rise and what the peak will be are unclear,” he said. For the Star’s signal map, the colour red indicates that COVID cases in the sewershed or wastewater catchment area are rising; yellow means cases are stable ; and green/blue means the signal is going down.
For the city of Toronto, there’s a slightly different framework that still follows the stoplight approach. The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and the science table agreed on a different set of criteria for the city after their risk assessments differed: green signifies little change or a decrease, yellow means caution as slight increases are observed and red means a larger increase in signal is occurring.
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