‘CRITICAL JUNCTURE’ IN FIGHT AGAINST VIRUS VARIANTS: TAM

Canada’s chief public health officer said Sunday that the collective efforts to fight COVID-19 are paying off, even as the country sits at a “critical juncture” in the fight against fast-spreading variants. dr. Theresa Tam said on Twitter that COVID-19 disease activity continues to decline and vaccination is heading in the right direction. “Our collective effort has begun to tip the balance in our favour,” she wrote. but she said Canadians need to maintain COVID-19 precautions to protect each other as cases of variants mount.