{"id":6837,"date":"2024-08-13T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2024-08-20T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:30:57","slug":"toronto-seeing-spike-in-mpox-cases-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/toronto-seeing-spike-in-mpox-cases-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto seeing \u2018spike\u2019 in mpox cases: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto is reporting a \u201cspike\u201d in mpox cases and health officials are urging eligible residents to get vaccinated to contain the spread.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release issued Tuesday, Toronto Public Health said it has seen 93 confirmed cases as of July 31. This time last year, the city\u2019s case count stood at 21.<\/p>\n<p>The latest numbers indicate that there were 13 new cases confirmed in Toronto over the last two weeks of July.<\/p>\n<p>According to TPH, mpox cases have been reported across the city, however a higher concentration of infections has been observed among residents in the downtown core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto is reporting a \u201cspike\u201d in mpox cases and health officials are urging eligible residents to get vaccinated to contain the spread.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release issued Tuesday, Toronto Public Health said it has seen 93 confirmed cases as of July 31. This time last year, the city\u2019s case count stood at 21.<\/p>\n<p>The latest numbers indicate that there were 13 new cases confirmed in Toronto over the last two weeks of July.<\/p>\n<p>According to TPH, mpox cases have been reported across the city, however a higher concentration of infections has been observed among residents in the downtown core.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/toronto-seeing-spike-in-mpox-cases-officials\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toronto seeing \u2018spike\u2019 in mpox cases: officials<\/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":[176,119,304,133,489,320,653,15],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mpox","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-public-health","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine-clinics","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","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=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6841,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/6841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}