A new report from the left-leaning think tank Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives wrote that the pay of Canada’s top 100 CEOs has risen an average of $95,000 as compared to 2019. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for small businesses, it’s apparently been great for large corporations. This would seem to indicate that Ottawa aggressively shut down travel with southern Africa last month in an attempt to ward off a variant that was already well established within Canadian borders. A team at Dalhousie University has found evidence of Omicron in Nova Scotian sewage from early November. Omicron appears to have been circulating in Canada well before the variant was first reported by South Africa in late November. Photo by Photo by Sanne Derks/Getty Images MORE COVID NEWS 2 photo, thousands of Dutch anti-lockdown protesters can be seen massing on the streets of Amsterdam. The Netherlands is the only European country that could be said to have comparable COVID restrictions to Ontario or Quebec, with outdoor gatherings of more than 2 people currently banned. Nevertheless, with Canadian health care capacity strained at the best of times, even a slight rise in Omicron hospitalizations has been enough to send Canadian hospitals into crisis. The National Post’s Rupa Subramanya rounded up some of the key indicators, including data from Public Health Ontario showing the Omicron patients are 54 per cent less likely to die or be hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Omicron continues to show itself as a variant that is wildly infectious while simultaneously yielding far lower rates of hospitalization and death. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. restrictions are largely reserved to vaccine passports and mask mandates, if at all. While there have been some district-wide school closures largely as a result of illness-related staff shortages, current U.S. states remain fully reopened in spite of ongoing Omicron surges.
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The Indian state of Karnataka, for instance, imposed an identical curfew to Quebec, but allowed restaurants and movie theatres to remain open at 50 per cent capacity. Curfews have been pursued to fight Omicron surges in both India and South Africa, but both countries also pursued much more liberal restrictions on indoor gathering as compared to Quebec.But with the notable exception of the Netherlands, European governments have avoided closures on schools and indoor dining. Omicron spikes across continental Europe are spurring expanded vaccine mandates, booster shots and curbs on indoor gatherings.Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week, “We can keep our schools and our businesses open, and we can find a way to live with this virus.” is openly resisting a return to lockdowns in the face of record-high COVID-19 cases and has not imposed business closures or restricted gatherings. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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