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Dr. Theresa Tam: Canada is monitoring children for signs of the inflammatory syndrome known as Kawasaki disease
BY , May 5, 2020 8:23 PM - REPORT AN ERROR
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, arrives at a press conference on Parliament Hill during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Monday, May 4, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Canada's chief public health officer says the daily increase of COVID-19 cases in Canada has slowed to about three per cent.
Dr. Theresa Tam says that trend, coupled with statistics showing the percentage of tests coming back positive is going down, even as the number of tests goes up, signifies that the epidemic in Canada is slowing down.
Meanwhile, Tam says the pediatric network in Canada is monitoring children for signs of the inflammatory syndrome known as Kawasaki disease, which some countries have found in some children with COVID-19.
But Tam says there are no firm conclusions in Canada about the links between COVID-19 and inflammatory diseases.
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