Canada Shows ‘Exceptionally’ Low Flu Rates Despite Increase in Testing: Report

Canada Shows ‘Exceptionally’ Low Flu Rates Despite Increase in Testing: Report
People receives flu vaccine at the Museum of science and technology in Milan, Italy on Nov. 4, 2020. Luca Bruno/The Associated Press
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Despite more testing being conducted to screen for influenza, the number of people tested positive for the flu is “exceptionally” low, says a governmental health report.

The FluWatch surveillance, a national weekly report that monitors the spread of influenza and its related illnesses, says that only eight people tested positive between Oct. 25 and Oct. 31, of which half of them may be showing symptoms from the flu vaccination, not the virus itself.
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