Updates on COVID-19 Variants

…to Nigeria (Dickson 2021; Martins 2021; Zussman 2021). November 30, 2021: Alberta confirmed first case of the Omicron variant from an individual travelling from Nigeria and the Netherlands(Gervais 2021). December…

2022.02.18 Variants NCCID with References

…Whiffen 2021) – December 19, 2021: Northwest Territories confirmed first case of the Omicron variant with direct links to interprovincial travel (Down 2021; Government of Northwest Territories 2021; Williams 2021)…

2022.01.21 Variants NCCID – with References

…https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/world/africa/covid-vaccine-astrazeneca-south-africa.html (February 14, 2021). Muik, Alexander et al. 2021. “Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.1.7 Pseudovirus by BNT162b2 Vaccine-Elicited Human Sera.” bioRxiv: 2021.01.18.426984. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.18.426984 (January 29, 2021). Mullan, Bryan. 2021. “18…

2021.06.25 COVID-19 Variant Updates

…region (Ellis, 2021b; Quenneville, 2021). – April 18, 2021: Nova Scotia reported first P.1 case (April, 2021; Government of Nova Scotia, 2021a). – April 15, 2021: Manitoba confirmed first case…

NIS Renewal Summit

Documents about the Summit NIS Renewal Summit – Guests Travel Claim InstructionsDownload NIS Renewal Summit- Participant AgendaDownload Documents to review ahead of the Summit NIS Renewal Summit – Revised Proposed…

PHAC Agent-Based Models on COVID-19

Projected effects of nonpharmaceutical public health interventions to prevent resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Canada This paper (with plain-language summary) describes the results of predictive modelling of several nonpharmaceutical measures…