An investigation has revealed that at least 192 care home residents in Canada's Vancouver died of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as the facilities deliberately did not declare outbreaks. Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Fraser Health tried to withhold the data about the failure of its Covid-19 tackling strategy of enhanced surveillance or monitoring, the report further said. The surge is Covid-19 cases in Canada was largely driven by more easily transmitted coronavirus variants and a reopening that many health experts said happened too soon. Less than four per cent of Canada's adult population has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has promised that everyone who wants to can be fully vaccinated by September, last week spoke of a "one-dose summer" and a "two-dose fall" without explaining what that might look like.

Source: Hindustan Times May 18, 2021 08:15 UTC