Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine said a new variant of COVID-19 has reached the prairies, but added that we are not in a crisis like we were three years ago.
Saskatchewan’s Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program report says the province is seeing its first cases of EG.5, aThe province said 21 clinical specimens tested positive for theSurge of new COVID-19 cases in Canada due to EG.5 sub-variant
It added that monovalent vaccines that aim to protect against XBB sub-lineages will be made available this fall.The report said hospitalizations due to the virus have decreased from 53 for the previous two weeks down to 27.Two COVID-19 related deaths were reported over the last four weeks.B.C. preparing for fall ‘tripledemic’
16 of those cases were from people over the age of 65, there were 13 people confirmed with the virus between the ages of 20 to 64 and the remaining three were from children in the 0-4 age group.
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