TORONTO: Coronavirus infections set new one-day highs in six Canadian provinces, prompting several provinces to impose more restrictions in hopes of containing the spread of the Omicron variant.
The biggest jumps were in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, which are the country’s most populous provinces.
Quebec reported more than 13,000 new cases in the previous 24 hours, Ontario had 10,436 and British Columbia listed 2,944.Manitoba, Alberta, and Newfoundland and Labrador also set new records. Manitoba reported 947 new infections, which broke the previous high of 825 set just a day earlier. Alberta said it had 2,775 and Newfoundland and Labrador reported 312.
British Columbia, Newfoundland, Labrador and breakNunavut territory also tightened the Covid-19 norms.