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Good evening, here are the coronavirus updates you need to know tonight.
Top headlines:
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has proven effective against severe COVID-19 illness and new variants
In the last 7 days,
3,740 people are being treated in hospitals and
695,679 others are considered recovered.
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1,122,450 doses of vaccine distributed to provinces have been administered. That’s
Jan. 26: Conservative health critic Michelle Rempel Garner says it’s a very real “concern” that all of Canada’s current vaccine doses come from Europe, amid the threat of an export ban
Jan. 25: The CEO of Great Canadian Gaming Corp. and his wife were charged under Yukon’s emergency measures act for breaking quarantine rules and misleading authorities
Jan. 24: Ontario looking into whether the COVID-19 mutation is the source of infections at a second facility in Ontario after a deadly outbreak at another home
Jan. 21: Location data from mobile phones indicates it was mostly those from white, affluent neighbourhoods who spent at least one night away from home over the holidays