a countrywide study launching monday will seek to better understand how many canadians have had covid-19 and whether they experienced any symptoms.
funded by the covid-19 immunity task force and carried out by statistics canada, the study follows a similar project in may that found fewer than one per cent of canadians had been infected .
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a study of 10,000 blood samples taken last spring from nine provinces found that fewer than one per cent tested positive for antibodies against the coronavirus. a joint study by héma-québec and the institut national de santé publique du québec later showed the percentage to be slightly higher in quebec .
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