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People line up in the rain for a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up clinic at the Masjid Darus Salaam in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood in Toronto on Sunday, April 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn April 12, 2021 - 4:32 PM
Ontario announced Monday it was closing its schools, and Toronto-area hospitals cleared pediatric beds to make room for COVID-19 patients as officials in other provinces defended the need for public-health restrictions.
Premier Doug Ford told a news conference that schools in the province would move to online learning next week, saying there is too much community spread of COVID-19 to risk a return to the classroom after spring break.
Rachel Nelson, shift manager/server at Hudsons Canada s Pub, sanitizes the sidewalk patio tables outside the establishment in Edmonton s Old Strathcona district on Friday April 9, 2021, after the provincial government imposed new COVID-19 health restrictions in Alberta, ordering all restaurants to close indoor dining. Photo by Larry Wong /Postmedia Network
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Ontario announced Monday it was closing its schools, and Toronto-area hospitals cleared pediatric beds to make room for COVID-19 patients as officials in other provinces defended the need for public-health restrictions.
Premier Doug Ford told a news conference that schools in the province would move to online learning next week, saying there is too much community spread of COVID-19 to risk a return to the classroom after spring break.
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Boxes of some of the first 500,000 of the two million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses that Canada has secured through a deal with the Serum Institute of India in partnership with Verity Pharma at a facility in Milton, Ont., on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Carlos Osorio / Pool via The Associated Press
British Columbia has reached a record-high number of new COVID-19 cases, now averaging over 1,000 a day for the first time. This surge of cases in British Columbia is matching trends in other parts of the country.
In British Columbia, it was announced Thursday that just under 900,000 people, mostly older adults and people with severe medical conditions, have received one dose of the COVID vaccine. This amounts to about 21 percent of those eligible. Nearly 88,000 have received a second dose.