Intimidating workers and impeding services at testing facilities is illegal, and threats and aggressive behaviour will be reported to police, say provincial officials
While we’ll still report on daily case counts when warranted, hospitalizations, people in critical care, and the positivity rate of official tests are metrics that provide a better indicator of where we are in the pandemic and where things are headed.
Some of the earliest data from around the world has shown signs that many people infected with the Omicron variant ended up with milder symptoms. But Canadian experts agree it is too soon to assume the variant will affect everybody the same way.