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15,000 coronavirus deaths under current measures

Ontario projects 3,000 to 15,000 coronavirus

 

deaths under current measures

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Ontario Public Health predicts the province could see between 3,000 to 15,000

coronavirus deaths in the province over the course of the pandemic under the

current intervention measures.

Without any measures, they predict 100,000 deaths by the end of the pandemic.

Officials expect 1,600 deaths and 80,000 cases by April 30 under the current

scenario.

President of Public Health Dr. Peter Donnelly explained that projections and

modeling of a brand new viral disease are “very inexact, but what is important is

that we use them early and quickly to advise us to the correct measures to take.

That is what has happened in Ontario.”

 

He adds the full scope of the pandemic could last anywhere between 18 months

and two years due to potential secondary and tertiary waves of the coronavirus.

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