Manitoba has its highest COVID-19 active case count ever, B.C. is very close to its record, and Ontario is also trending upward
In other words, all of Canada's five most populous provinces are being reminded that COVID-19 is still a threat – even though this is the time of year when viral diseases are least likely to be active.
With 367 new cases of COVID-19 reported across Canada on Saturday and only 145 new recoveries logged, Canada's total number of active cases moved past the 5,000 mark for the first time in nearly three weeks, according to CTV News records. "It is concerning what we're seeing out there, but in the grand scheme of things it is still overall low community transmission," he said.
The other is Manitoba, which originally topped out just under 200 in early April. Two months after that, its active case count was down to the single digits. Whatever is happening in the West does not seem to be affecting the coronavirus situation in Central Canada, Atlantic Canada and the territories.
The numbers are far smaller in Atlantic Canada, where earlier in the summer all four provinces went through periods without a single active case, only for the virus to pop back up.
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