\u0027Omicron is the first dominant variant to demonstrate a decline in disease severity\u0027: Ontario top doctor Kieran Moore
Moore cautioned that even with lower severity the huge surge in overall cases could potentially strain the health-care system in the weeks ahead.
“We have to use that finite capacity to best protect Ontarians. I can assure you if we had the ability to test every person, 14.7 million people whenever they got ill, we would have done so but no country around the globe has that capacity,” he said. Moore said so far hospitalization and ICU admissions are not rising nearly as quickly as the case totals.
The province is also delaying the return to class for students, pushing it back two days to Jan. 5. Moore also announced that the province would allow people infected with the virus to stop quarantine after five days instead of ten, so long as their symptoms had either disappeared or were improving.Article content
The changes don’t apply to unvaccinated individuals or people who are immunocompromised. Moore also stressed that people ending their quarantine early should not resume all activities.
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