OTTAWA – Canada is experiencing extraordinarily excessive COVID-19 charges this summer, and well being officers throughout the nation have responded by alerting Canadians to the heightened danger of sunburn whereas partaking in summer season actions.
“Although the summer season is sort of over doesn’t imply that the hazards of solar publicity go away,” Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, stated in an interview about present well being points going through Canadians. “In actual fact, Canadians needs to be carrying sunscreen all 12 months spherical to forestall pores and skin most cancers.”
When requested how Canadians needs to be defending themselves from the present COVID wave making its method throughout Canada and the inevitable COVID waves the nation will face within the fall and winter, Tam was adamant that folks not overlook different types of solar safety, like hats and sun shades.
Quebec public well being officers have echoed Tam’s considerations about pores and skin most cancers when requested in regards to the present COVID surge in Quebec which is killing dozens of individuals each week and has prompted quite a few outbreaks in long-term care houses and hospitals. A number of well being services have instituted face masks necessities, however the Quebec Well being Ministry has made it clear that that is primarily to guard folks’s faces from the harm brought on by UV rays.
Whereas BC has declared an finish to the COVID-19 public well being emergency and eliminated the requirement that healthcare staff be vaccinated in opposition to the virus to scale back their danger of passing it on to susceptible sufferers, at a latest press convention BC Well being Minister Adrian Dix was happy to tell BC residents that it’s now simpler than ever for them to guard themselves from the solar’s ray due to a number of free public sunscreen dispensers throughout the province.
Following a query in regards to the waste-water proof of an enormous August COVID surge in BC, Dix stopped speaking and have become fully unresponsive till Provincial Well being Officer Bonnie Henry grabbed the microphone and stated, “COVID is over, you all want to just accept that, and in addition perhaps that it by no means even occurred. However we will’t fake the solar doesn’t exist, so don’t overlook your SPF.”
At press time, up to date variations of the COVID vaccines that had been not too long ago authorised to be used within the US nonetheless haven’t been authorised by the Canadian authorities as a result of they forgot to assign anybody to judge them.
