Ontario's Health Minister has issued a warning about COVID-19 variant cases.
Christine Elliot says there is a growing number of variant cases in younger people.
"We are seeing that the variants of concern are striking more younger people, and we're following that very closely. We're also watching the capacity in our hospitals as well, because we know that if the variants of concern increase exponentially we're going to need to have medicine beds, we're going to need to have more intensive care beds, more ventilators, but we're ready for that."
She says it's a race against time as new infections are on the rise and vaccines are administered.
This comes after Chief Medical Officer of Health Doctor David Williams commented that Ontario is in a third wave.
Earlier today, the province announced 1745 new cases of the virus.
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