David Champredon^1,*, Christina Bancej², Liza Lee², Steven Buckrell²

¹ Public Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory. Public Health Risk Sciences Division. Guelph, Ontario.

² Public Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Disease. Surveillance and Epidemiology Division. Ottawa, Ontario.

^* Corresponding author: david.champredon@canada.ca

Author contributions:

David Champredon: Conceptualization, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Formal Analysis.

Christina Bancej: Conceptualization, Writing – Review & Editing.

Liza Lee: Data Curation, Writing – Review & Editing.

Steven Buckrell: Data Curation.

Conflict of interest: None.

Funding statement: None.

Data availability statement: all data is publicly available

Ethics approval statement: not applicable.

Keywords : Rhinovirus, SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19, respiratory viruses surveillance, contact rate.