canadian-born nba player andrew wiggins told fansided that he regrets getting the covid-19 vaccine, saying he didn’t like “putting that stuff in his body” and that he wasn’t given a choice — it was either get vaccinated or don’t play. however, he went on to say he had the best year of his career, so maybe the covid-19 vaccine doesn’t trash the body the way a certain side of the internet would like you to believe?
seventy-six regions in 44 countries around the world have launched covid-19 exposure notification apps, according to a report by apple released today . despite initial concerns about privacy, uptake for the contact-tracing seems to be fairly high, with the national health service (u.k.) covid-19 app being downloaded 21 million times, swisscovid being downloaded more than 3.8 million times, and the finnish app — koronavilkku — being downloaded at least 2.5 million times.
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the canadian version of the contact-tracing app was downloaded approximately 6.86 million times, according to the cbc . although experts in canada are skeptical of whether it really helped (the canadian app didn’t follow up to see if the person notified got tested or if they came down with covid-19 after being exposed), a study published in nature estimates that the u.k. app prevented the spread of roughly one covid case per patient who consented to notifying their contacts. that amounts to roughly 284,000-594,000 cases avoided, depending on the modelling system used.
a new poll by angus reid indicates that canadians are not interested in reintroducing covid-related restrictions, despite continuing to be concerned about the virus.
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passengers arriving to canada via airports in toronto, vancouver, calgary and montreal may be asked to get a covid-19 test , a move officials say will help identify any potential variants coming into the country. anyone who tests positive will be required to isolate for 10 days, regardless of whether or not the province they are staying in still require quarantining. (alberta, for example, does not currently require anyone who tests positive for covid-19 to isolate.)
however, testing is not done at the airports. instead, travellers will be required to travel to an approved testing location off-site. courtney greenberg has more on the story over at the national post.
emma jones is a multimedia editor with healthing. you can reach her at emjones@postmedia.com or on instagram and twitter @jonesyjourn .
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