Over 300 infected with Covid variant in Canada care home

Ottawa, Jan 29 : A devastating outbreak linked to the UK Covid-19 variant at a care home in Canada’s Toronto city has now infected more than 300 individuals, heightening fears of community spread, according to officials.
All but one of the home’s 128 residents have been sickened with the virus, along with 86 staff members, Xinhua news agency reported.
The variant spreading in Ontario is a “significant threat” to controlling the pandemic, but maintaining existing public health interventions will likely help encourage a downward trend in cases, according to an updated report by the provincial government’s Covid-19 advisory table released on Thursday.
The report showed that cases and positivity are down in much of the province, that testing volumes are slightly down too.
Covid-19 cases are expected to drop between 1,000-2,000 by the end of February, but that could change as the new variant of concern takes hold.
On Thursday, Canada reported 3,869 new cases and 104 deaths, which increased the overall infection tally and fatalities in the country to 765,094 and 19,645, respectively.