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Wastewater data shows early signs of 'resurgence' of COVID-19 viral load in Ontario, expert says

Dr. Peter Juni, scientific director of the science advisory table, says that means it's vital for residents to get third doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Juni is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Toronto.

He said wastewater analysis shows that Ontario has reached the bottom of the trough, or valley, in terms of COVID-19 infections but there is a slight upward trend in the concentration of viral prevalence in wastewater across the province.

"What we are seeing basically is the early signs of a resurgence," Juni told CBC Toronto on Saturday.

"For quite some time, this happened outside of the GTA already for a little while. But now we're also seeing that the sleeping giant has woken up and that we start to see a bit of an upward trend also in the GTA," he said.

Juni said the upward trend is expected because of gradual reopening and the data is no reason for alarm but it is important for people to get their third doses. He said experts do not know by how much viral load will rise and he said the increase is not a function of waning immunity to the virus.

The risk of ending up in an hospital or an intensive care unit is reduced fivefold by a third dose, he noted.

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