OTTAWA —
The 2021 flu season will go down in historical past because the epidemic that by no means was.
By this time of the yr, Canada has usually logged a median of greater than 43,000 confirmed circumstances of influenza.
However this yr, the Public Well being Company of Canada says there was a complete of simply 66 confirmed circumstances as of March 20.
The federal company says the case numbers are so low they have not even met the edge to declare the flu season as having begun.
There was no proof of flu spreading in the neighborhood, no confirmed outbreaks and the variety of hospitalizations and deaths because of the flu is zero.
Canada’s chief public well being officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the general public well being measures in place to sluggish the unfold of COVID-19 have helped preserve the flu at bay, but additionally different infectious illnesses like measles — not identified as soon as in Canada in additional than a yr.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed March 31, 2021.
