Canada As A Whole & 4 Provinces Had High COVID-19 Positivity Rates Over 3% Yesterday

When it comes to the COVID-19 positivity rate in Canada, four provinces reached over 3% yesterday and so did the country as a whole. 

According to Dr. Andrew Morris, an infectious disease specialist with Sinai Health and the University Health Network, high numbers like that mean there's a worrying level of positive cases.

"Anything over 3% is pretty high," he said. "When you get over 8, 9 or 10%, it’s very, very high."

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3% COVID-19 positivity rate in four provinces on October 22

Based on the daily change in the number of cases and people tested posted by Canada on October 22 at 7:00 p.m. ET, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and B.C. had rates over 3% reported that day.

The positivity rate was 4.3% in B.C., 4.1% in Saskatchewan, 6.3% in Manitoba and 8.7% in Quebec.

Quebec is the only province that was in the "very, very high" territory yesterday.

For the country as a whole, the rate that day was 3.6%.

Recently, Dr. Theresa Tam said that we might not have even seen the worst of the severe impacts associated with rising case counts.