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As part of Statistics Canada's commitment to providing timely and relevant information on COVID-19 and its impact on Canadians, a new updated provisional dataset from the Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database, covering the period from January 2020 to December 2021, was released today. The Omicron variant was detected in Canada at the end of November 2021. Subsequently, many provinces and territories observed an increase in COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and admissions to intensive care units, with those figures generally peaking in January.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Daily: Health - Category: Statistics Authors: Source Type: research