COVID-19 continue their upswing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Canada’s top doctors will provide a pre-Christmas update on the pandemic Wednesday.Trudeau and Freeland will attend the virtual press conference at noon E.T., to make an announcement alongside Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, and Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough, as well as Canada’s chief public health officer Dr.
Theresa Tam and deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo.The update, usually scheduled for Fridays, comes amid a massive surge in case counts across much of the country, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.