Canada expecting uptick in excess deaths amid COVID-19: StatCan

Canada is expecting to see an increase in excess deaths as COVID-19 cases are once again trending upwards, according to Statistics Canada. Between March and June 2020, as COVID-19 spread across the country, Canada saw over 7,000 excess deaths. That figure refers to deaths that exceed the number that would normally be expected during any given period of time. While these excess deaths skyrocketed in the early months of the pandemic, there was a brief dip in July, when these figures returned to a