{"id":4328,"date":"2024-01-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2024-01-16T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T03:34:56","slug":"toronto-may-be-past-its-flu-peak-but-covid-19-remains-high-public-health-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/toronto-may-be-past-its-flu-peak-but-covid-19-remains-high-public-health-agency-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto may be past its flu peak, but COVID-19 remains high, public health agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto likely reached its influenza season peak in December, but according to Toronto Public Health\u2019s latest respiratory illness update, COVID-19 infections are expected to remain high for now.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of positive influenza tests dropped to 6.6&nbsp;per cent the week of Dec.&nbsp;31 to Jan.&nbsp;6, down from 15.6&nbsp;per cent the week prior, Toronto Public Health (TPH) told the city\u2019s Board of Health Monday. When it comes to COVID-19, positivity dropped only slightly to 17.6&nbsp;per cent for the week of Dec.&nbsp;31 to Jan.&nbsp;6 from 18.6&nbsp;per cent the week before.<\/p>\n<p>But getting over the influenza peak doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t still high levels of the illness in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto likely reached its influenza season peak in December, but according to Toronto Public Health\u2019s latest respiratory illness update, COVID-19 infections are expected to remain high for now.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of positive influenza tests dropped to 6.6&nbsp;per cent the week of Dec.&nbsp;31 to Jan.&nbsp;6, down from 15.6&nbsp;per cent the week prior, Toronto Public Health (TPH) told the city\u2019s Board of Health Monday. When it comes to COVID-19, positivity dropped only slightly to 17.6&nbsp;per cent for the week of Dec.&nbsp;31 to Jan.&nbsp;6 from 18.6&nbsp;per cent the week before.<\/p>\n<p>But getting over the influenza peak doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t still high levels of the illness in the city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/toronto-may-be-past-its-flu-peak-but-covid-19-remains-high-public-health-agency-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toronto may be past its flu peak, but COVID-19 remains high, public health agency says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,77,119,80,49,14,133,489,320,15],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-ontario","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-public-health","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}