New Travel-Related COVID-19 Cases In Canada May Be Linked To Holiday Vacations
As travel-related COVID-19 cases in Canada continue to be confirmed, Health Canada’s data suggests they may be linked to vacations taken around the holiday period.
According to the federal agency, via Global News, the number of cases involving recent travellers and those they came in contact with has climbed over the last few months.
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Travel-related cases in December
While travel exposures account for less than 2% of Canada’s total number of COVID-19 cases, the figures continue to increase.
In December 2020, 486 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in people who’d travelled recently.
It was the most since March of the same year, and an increase from 312 in November and 204 in October.
Another 1,258 cases were confirmed in people who’d been in contact with a recent traveller in December, despite the mandatory two-week quarantine upon arrival in Canada.
This was up from 744 and 704 in November and October respectively.
The number of travel-related cases continued to rise in the first three weeks of January too, with 384 new positive tests as well as an additional 607 contacts.
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