Health officials to provide update on COVID-19, medicine shortages in Canada
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The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is set to provide an update Friday as the country continues to grapple with new COVID-19 subvariants amid ongoing medicine shortages.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is set to provide an update Friday as the country continues to grapple with new COVID-19 subvariants amid ongoing medicine shortages.
The update will come at 10 a.m. ET with federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Chief Officer of Health Dr. Theresa Tam and Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo in attendance, a spokesperson for PHAC told Global News Thursday.
Also present will be Dr. Matt Tunis from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).
Apart from COVID-19, the update will cover analgesics shortages in the country and the Canada Dental Plan, a benefit aimed to help lower dental costs for eligible families, the PHAC spokesperson said.
The update comes at a time when the number of confirmed cases of the XBB.1.5. subvariant has hit a total of 42 infections.
According to PHAC, “Nationally, the number of new COVID-19 cases reported increased over the week of January 1-7.”
Ontario saw the highest number of cases during the first week of January with a total of 7,456, while Quebec came in second with 5,469 infections.
In a statement to Global News last week, the agency also said the number of cases related to the XBB.1.5. variant is expected to rise in the coming weeks because of a “delay in reporting late December and early January detections from provinces and territories due to the holiday period.”
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