Not surprisingly cases are going back up here since getting rid of mask requirements:
(Plus we've been enduring a cold snap driving people back inside)
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-reports-significant-jump-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-nine-new-deaths-1.5839164
Ontario health officials are reporting 790 people in hospital with COVID-19 Tuesday, including 165 patients in intensive care.
Tuesday’s hospitalizations case count marks a considerable increase over the 655 reported on Monday and the 553 reported on Sunday, although not all hospitals report patient data over the weekends.
Of Tuesday’s hospitalizations, 153 patients are unvaccinated and 470 are fully vaccinated. The vaccination status of the remaining patients is unknown.
Wastewater data, provided by Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Table, appears to confirm this slight increase in infection. In nearly every region in the province the concentration of the disease in wastewaters has started to rise.
With 12,302 tests processed in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health says the province's positivity rate is about 14.4 per cent.
Quebec is getting a BA.2 wave
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/coronavirus-covid-19-national-news/experts-say-quebec-has-entered-a-sixth-wave-of-covid-19-propelled-by-ba2-subvariant-5206440
Quebec has already entered a sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by the BA.2 subvariant, two experts said Monday, although it's unclear how severe it will be and whether the rest of the country will follow.
Of course it will reach the rest of the country, but it should be more of a ripple than a wave I hope. Anti-bodies should still be high from all the boosters and BA.1 infections.