Pennsylvania coronavirus case rates are climbing again and the state has seen an average of 213 deaths a say over the last week, its highest seven-day average yet, as the Pa. COVID-19 death toll approaches 18,000. Your Pennsylvania coronavirus updates for Jan. 11, 2021.
TORONTO Staff and residents at Tendercare Living Centre began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations Sunday, hoping to stem to the outbreak at the hard-hit long-term care home. Seventy-three people have died from contracting the virus at the Scarborough facility, which has suffered the highest COVID-19 fatality rate of all Ontario long-term care homes. As of Sunday there were 20 active resident cases at Tendercare; 91 resident cases were considered resolved. “I’m happy I’m going to get my vaccine today,” personal support worker Nina Barcon told CTV News Toronto on her way into the centre. Barcon was scheduled to return to work Monday after recovering from COVID-19.
TORONTO Sparked by an explosion of COVID-19 cases, Quebecâs month-long curfew could increase peopleâs feelings of loneliness, one expert warned, urging people to maintain personal connections and physical activity. âPeople are getting fed up with the uncertainty.â Roger McIntyre, a psychiatry and pharmacology professor from the University of Toronto, told CTV News Channel on Sunday. McIntyre understands how maddening it must be for Quebecers to contend with yet another measure when they are already facing economic strife under COVID-19 public health restrictions. âThis is really an anti-motivation time,â McIntyre, head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network, said. âWe got not only this virus, but we have the incredible loneliness that goes along with being asked to stay home.â