Justin Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19 for 2nd time – National

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has COVID-19 — once more.

In a tweet on Monday morning, Trudeau introduced he has once more examined constructive for the virus and is isolating, however stated he felt “OK.”

Trudeau beforehand examined constructive for COVID-19 in January because the Omicron variant surge despatched case counts throughout the nation hovering to new highs.

He’s triple vaccinated.

Recurring an infection from COVID-19 has turn out to be extra widespread over latest months because of Omicron and the more moderen sub-variant, BA.2. Each are immune-evasive, that means the virus has developed sufficient mutations to flee among the immune response gained from vaccination.

Vaccination beforehand was extremely efficient at stopping an infection and transmission of earlier variants of COVID-19, together with the Delta variant that dominated the summer time of 2021.

Nonetheless, the rising actuality of repeated an infection by Omicron and immune-evasive variants doesn’t imply the vaccines don’t work. The vaccines stay extremely efficient at stopping extreme outcomes akin to dying and hospitalizations that overwhelmed healthcare programs in lots of components of the world earlier within the pandemic.

“The Omicron variant, particularly, appears to be one that may re-infect folks over and over,” Kelly McNagny, professor of medical genetics on the College of British Columbia’s faculty for biomedical engineering, instructed International Information final month.

“It’s somewhat bit extra just like the widespread chilly virus that tends to contaminate the higher airways, which is a spot the place you have a tendency to not develop robust immunity simply.”

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau examined constructive for the virus within the early months of the pandemic.

Trudeau and two of his youngsters caught the virus on the finish of January 2022, whereas former Conservative Celebration chief Erin O’Toole and his spouse, Rebecca, examined constructive for the virus in September 2020.

For the previous week, Trudeau was in Los Angeles for conferences with hemispheric leaders on the Summit of the Americas, the place he emphasised that the pandemic isn’t over at the same time as many jurisdictions raise public well being measures. On Thursday, he met with U.S. President Joe Biden.

Trudeau returned to Canada on Friday.

He’s scheduled to move to Germany for the G7 Summit on June 26, although it’s unclear whether or not the constructive check will impression these plans.

With a file from International’s Irelyne Lavery.