I doubt they'd make a decision based on those numbers, lol! Actually, I saw the same article in the National Post (not sure who was the originating author of the story), which has had an agenda of downplaying any vaccine success in Canada, so I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers they cite are intentional BS.
I think the thing is border opening will be a process. Everything I've read suggests we've still at the beginning stages, and the decision coming this week likely will be to renew what we currently have. Sure sports teams could be exempt, but that would still require an exemption to the current border regime which sounds a ways off still, or at least hasn't been telegraphed in any way. Anyway, we should know more by Friday.