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In the middle of April, only one per cent of COVID-19 cases were attributed to Delta, said Pagel, a director of University College London’s Clinical Operational Research Unit.
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But Delta cases were doubling every week, even though the country was under partial lockdown and vaccines were rolling out, Pagel explained on Twitter.
In mid-May, the government eased restrictions, opening indoor spaces and ending mask rules for secondary students even as Pagel and others called for stricter border controls and measures to make schools safer.
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Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer, unveiled modelling data that indicated the province was heading to a third wave, spurred by new variants, and that cases would rise dramatically unless stay-at home orders continued.