Category: Theresa Tam

Influenza Cases Down by Over 40,000 Compared to Average Flu Season: PHAC

March 31, 2021
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OTTAWA—The 2021 flu season will go down in history as the epidemic that never was. By this time of the year, Canada has normally logged an average of more than 43,000 confirmed cases of influenza. But this year, the Public Health Agency of Canada says there was a total of just 66 confirmed cases as…

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Top Doctor Says Vaccines Could Allow Toughest Restrictions to Lift Before September

February 23, 2021
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OTTAWA—Canada’s chief public health officer says results from COVID-19 vaccinations are so encouraging that she thinks the need for massive lockdowns could be over before the end of the summer. “It will it even (be) before September, I think, depending on a number of factors, such as vaccine uptake, ongoing monitoring of other variants, and…

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Feds Call for Continued Vigilance as Canada Sees 30 Percent Drop in COVID Cases

February 4, 2021
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Canada has seen nearly a 30-percent drop in active COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks, but chief public health officer says strict measures should remain in place as more contagious variants of the virus threaten to derail this downward trend. In a daily update Thursday, Dr. Theresa Tam said there are 48,221 active COVID-19…

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Ottawa Says Border Controls Are Sufficient Despite Complaints From Ontario

December 22, 2020
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MONTREAL—Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the federal government is doing enough at the border to protect Canadians from COVID-19. Blair told reporters today Canada’s border controls are some of the strictest in the world and that more than 98 percent of COVID-19 cases in the country are the result of community transmission—not international travel….

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