Your weekly COVID-19 update

Every Tuesday, the Maclean's daily newsletter will catch you up on what you need to know about Canada's fight against the coronavirus. This week, Patricia Treble focuses on one story worth watching, and you can get a sneak peek here. You'll also get the same mix of Maclean's stories you expect every day if you scroll down below.

Few Canadians relish the end of summer, saying goodbye to all those days of having fun outdoors. In 2020, those feelings are intermingled with concerns about the status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Last week, I wrote about how the data has a weekly rhythm, largely due to British Columbia and Alberta reporting their weekend cases on Monday. After that one-day jump in cases, the numbers drop off before spiking again the next Monday. For the past four weeks, that Monday count has increased on a faster and faster pace:

Aug. 10: 699 cases
Aug. 17: 738 (+39)
Aug. 24: 804 (+70)
Aug. 31: 1,053 (+245)

Until Aug. 23, Canada was reporting fewer than 400 cases a day on a seven-day rolling average (the lowest daily average was 354 new cases on Aug. 3). Since then, the national average has increased every day, until the Aug. 31 count sent it to more than 475 cases per day. That’s nearly a 20 per cent increase in a bit more than a week, though the increase for the entire month is just nine per cent.

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