While the COVID-19 epidemic in Canada remains "largely under control," one of Canada's top public health officials is warning that the potential for a significant spike in new cases "is not just hypothetical, as this is exactly what we are already seeing in some other parts of the world."
As the United States nears three million cases of COVID-19 and states like Texas and California show record-high numbers of newly-reported cases, Canada's public health agency on Wednesday released the latest figures in its modelling of the coronavirus outbreak in this country, showing the epidemic is on the same trajectory as it was at the end of June.
Dr. Howard Njoo, deputy chief public health officer of Canada, told a media briefing in Ottawa today that "the current patterns of COVID-19 infections show limited to no transmission in most areas of the country."