Canada ski resort has largest outbreak of P1 Covid variant outside Brazil Leyland Cecco in Toronto © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
For ski resorts, spring normally marks a final chance for visitors to carve sun-drenched runs before the season ends.
But at Canada’s most famous ski resort, the gondolas have stopped, and the slopes are eerily quiet.
The village of Whistler was shut down by provincial authorities at the end of March after they realised that P1, the highly infectious coronavirus variant traced back to Brazil, was spreading rapidly throughout the community.
As provinces across Canada break records for new cases of the virus, experts have grown increasingly troubled by the rapid and covert spread of variants. With 877 confirmed cases of P1, the province of British Columbia is now the centre of the world’s largest sequenced outbreak of the variant outside Brazil – and nearly a quarter of those cases have bee
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TORONTO Ontario is expected to announce a 28-day province-wide “shutdown” Thursday to stop the spread of COVID-19 as an alarming spike in cases threatens the critical care system, The Canadian Press has learned.
A source with knowledge of the restrictions discussed at a cabinet meeting Wednesday night said the final details of the new measures will be worked out Thursday morning.
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The new steps would still allow both essential and non-essential retailers to remain open, albeit with occupancy limits, and schools will remain open after the Easter weekend. and not be closed ahead of a spring break slated for April 12, said the CBC, citing unnamed sources.
TORONTO Ontario is now providing a more accurate picture of how many people sickened by COVID-19 are ending up in intensive care units, by including in the daily counts patients who are still requiring care in ICUs, but are no longer testing positive. Up until now, patients who eventually tested negativeâbut were still in the ICU due to COVID-19 complicationsâwere taken out of the provinceâs reported daily total. This resulted in a lower reported number of patients who were actually still in the ICU due to the virus. With the newly updated numbers, there are an additional 27 patients being reported in intensive care.