What you should know about Omicron subvariants EG.5 and BA.2.86

Just as they have every autumn since 2020, COVID-19 infection and hospitalization numbers have begun to rise across Canada as summer winds down into September. In a televised technical briefing on Tuesday, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam assigned some of the blame for this uptick in COVID-19 activity to new Omicron subvariants.Top coronavirus headlines, all in one place"The Omicron variant continues to evolve," Tam said, "with XBB subvariants such as EG.5 continuing to circu