Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Monday, December 21, 2020:
There have been 155,930 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 2,316 (or 1.5 per cent) from the previous day. There are 133,213 people recovered from the virus while 4,150 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 7,371,532 of which 54,546 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 507,795. The country has 14,228 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, 724 in British Columbia, 851 in Alberta, 118 in Saskatchewan, 569 in Manitoba, 4,150 in Ontario, 7,736 in Quebec, eight in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
Vaccine expected to reach EOHU region in April December 19, 2020 Reading time: 1 min 30 s
By Phillip Blancher, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Photo from Wyoming Public Media.
CORNWALL – Eleven months after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Canada, the first shipments of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived December 14th.
The first doses in Ontario are being distributed to front-line health care workers in Toronto and Ottawa, with more doses expected in the coming weeks. But don’t expect any wide-scale roll out of vaccinations in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region before April.
“My understanding is there are going to be a lot of doses,” said Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, Medical Officer of Health for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit.
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Sunday, December 20, 2020:
There have been 153,614 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 2,357 (or 1.6 per cent) from the previous day. There are 131,282 people recovered from the virus while 4,125 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 7,302,120 of which 78,147 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 501,594. The country has 14,154 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, 724 in British Columbia, 841 in Alberta, 115 in Saskatchewan, 556 in Manitoba, 4,125 in Ontario, 7,715 in Quebec, eight in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Saturday, December 19, 2020:
There have been 151,257 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 2,290 (or 1.5 per cent) from the previous day. There are 129,417 people recovered from the virus while 4,098 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 7,234,913 of which 81,235 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 495,346. The country has 14,040 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, 724 in British Columbia, 815 in Alberta, 107 in Saskatchewan, 547 in Manitoba, 4,098 in Ontario, 7,671 in Quebec, eight in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
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