Malaysia is one example – we’re still in four-digit territory insofar as infections go. And it looks like it is staying that way for some time to come.
Canada is another example. Actually, it's in an even worse position. The country is experiencing a surge in Covid-19 infections.
Specifically, Ontario has reported an inflow of sick younger adults in intensive care units – comprising almost 50 percent patients below 60 years old.
Dr. Kashif Pirzada, an emergency physician in Toronto, was quoted as saying to CNN: “The people filling the ICU right now are all in their 30s, 40s, and 50s”.
Canada had said that a whopping 64 percent spike in new Covid-19 cases involved new coronavirus variants. Of that, 90 percent of the infections involved the B.1.1.7 Covid-19 variant that was identified in the United Kingdom last September.
In fact, I had come across one research article published in the journal Science which found the variant had between a 43 percent and 90 percent higher reproduction number.
No doubt about it, this particular variant is both fleet-footed and nasty!
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