The spread of the coronavirus is slowing in Canada, but the country is not out of the woods, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned on Tuesday, as the death toll from Covid-19 disease approached the 3000 mark.
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"The measures we have taken are working," assured the Prime Minister. "In many parts of the country, the virus has slowed down, but we haven't gotten out of the woods," he said during his daily press conference. "The total number of cases in Canada continues to increase more slowly than in most countries," said Director of the Public Health Agency of Canada, Dr. Theresa Tam, in a press conference.
At the start of the pandemic, each infected person transmitted the virus, on average, to 2.19 people. This transmission rate is now slightly higher than 1, the result of confinement and physical separation measures, she said. "The last time I presented this graph to you, the number of confirmed cases in Canada doubled every 3 to 5 days, now the number of cases doubles every 16 days," she said, updating the forecasts given. At the beginning of April.
Canadian health authorities now predict that the number of infected people will be between 53,196 and 66,835 by May 5, while the death toll will be between 3,277 and 38,83. Canada reported Tuesday afternoon 49,804 cases of coronavirus and 2,929 dead.