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TORONTO Ontario health officials are reporting fewer than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time since the beginning of April. The province confirmed 2,791 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday. The last time the province reported fewer than 3,000 new cases was on April 5 before the height of the third wave. The dip in daily infections today comes after the province logged 3,436 cases on Monday, 3,732 new cases on Sunday and 3,369 new cases on Saturday. Ontario’s rolling seven-day average now stands at 3,509, down from 3,887 at this point last week. The positivity rate in the province remained high on Tuesday. With 33,740 tests processed in the last 24 hours, the positivity rate stands at 9.1 per cent.
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Nurses from Humber River Hospital s mobile vaccine clinic administer the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a Toronto Community Housing building, as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 13, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
As Canada’s vaccination campaign ramps up, people at higher risk of transmitting COVID-19 often lack the resources to navigate labyrinthine booking systems or the documentation that would ease their path to inoculation.
Those without provincial health insurance, such as refugee claimants or undocumented workers, often perform front-line jobs or live in neighbourhoods that put them at high risk of infection. Immunizing this population is critical to tackling Canada’s crushing third-wave of the pandemic, epidemiologists said.