The sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to impact hospitals where workers are off because they're sick or have had close contact with someone with symptoms. Wastewater data shows most cases are from the Omicron BA.2 subvariant.
Dr. Rabia Bana, an associate medical officer of health for Region of Waterloo Public Health, says COVID-19 trends in Waterloo region are stable or improving. But she added it's 'expected and quite natural' for people to have different comfort levels with new regulations, like the lifting of masking.
Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic often kept people apart with lockdowns. But on the two-year anniversary of the first case in Waterloo region, officials say the experience brought people, businesses, health-care providers and governments together like never before.