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Ottawa Public Health reports 281 new cases, two new deaths Thursday.
Canada hits vaccination milestone: 10.8 million doses administered; nearly 30 per cent of adults have receive at least one dose.
The federal government is suspending passenger flights from Indian and Pakistan for the next 30 days amid rising COVID-19 cases in the two countries.
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Thursday’s announcement comes after at least 32 flights from India’s Delhi and two from Pakistan landed in Canada over the past two weeks with passengers who later tested positive for COVID-19. Additional measures are also coming to prevent passengers from India and Pakistan from accessing Canada via other countries.
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The Brockville General Hospital has opened its doors to patients from across Eastern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area as part of a provincewide shuttle to ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals in COVID-19 hotspots.
As of mid-week, BGH had received or was expecting 30 patients – some with COVID, some not – from hospitals in Cornwall, Kingston, Scarborough and Oshawa.
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The patient tally includes 19 people battling the virus. Six are from Kingston Health Sciences, 10 from Scarborough Health Network and three from Lakeridge Health in Oshawa.
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NEW DELHI India recorded the world’s highest daily tally of new COVID-19 infections on Thursday 314,835 cases with most hospitals full and running out of oxygen.
Health officials across northern and western India including the capital, New Delhi, said they were in crisis.
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“Right now there are no beds, no oxygen. Everything else is secondary,” Shahid Jameel, a virologist and director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, told Reuters. “The infrastructure is crumbling.”
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A record number of critically ill COVID-19 patients were moved around Ontario hospitals Wednesday cumulatively covering thousands of kilometres as the province struggles to juggle patients between a dwindling supply of available hospital beds.
More movement much more is coming, as Ontario health officials brace for Toronto-area hospitals to be hit hard by the third wave of COVID, fuelled by more contagious variants.
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The relocation of 36 patients from Ontario intensive care units to ICU beds in other regions Wednesday comes as ICU hospital workers fear time is running out to ease demand on medical facilities and staff in the province’s COVID hotspot.