Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Thursday, January 7, 2021:
There have been 200,626 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 3,266 (or 1.7 per cent) from the previous day. There are 169,795 people recovered from the virus while 4,767 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 8,229,150 of which 55,484 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 626,799. The country has 16,369 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, one in Nunavut, 962 in British Columbia, 1,193 in Alberta, 174 in Saskatchewan, 705 in Manitoba, 4,767 in Ontario, 8,488 in Quebec, nine in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
OTTAWA - It has been 66 years since Canada and Iran established diplomatic ties. Those had frayed and been mended many times before the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines flight near Tehran killed all 176 on board, including at least 55 Canadian citizens and more than 100 people with ties to Canada.
In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 photo, rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ebrahim Noroozi
OTTAWA - It has been 66 years since Canada and Iran established diplomatic ties. Those had frayed and been mended many times before the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines flight near Tehran killed all 176 on board, including at least 55 Canadian citizens and more than 100 people with ties to Canada.
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Coronavirus in Canada
A grey minivan belonging to a local funeral home parks in front of a storage container that’s been converted into a temporary morgue at the rear of Windsor Regional Hospital Met Campus in Windsor, Ont., on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo by the Canadian Press
Touting the need for drastic action, Quebec became the first province to impose a curfew Wednesday as soaring COVID-19 infections across Canada intensified the strain on hospitals and prompted some Ontario morgues to run out of space.
Quebec s premier pointed to the province s overburdened hospitals as he announced a four-week curfew, to begin Saturday, that would bar people from leaving their homes between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., unless they are going to work.
WestJet bars passengers from boarding for improper virus test as Canadian rules start
FILE PHOTO: WestJet airline signage is pictured at Vancouver s international airport in Richmond
(Reuters) -WestJet Airlines said on Thursday it had denied 10 passengers from boarding a flight for lacking the proper test for the novel coronavirus, just after a Canadian government requirement that passengers show proof of a negative result before boarding took effect.
Faced with a mounting second wave of infections, the government said last week that passengers would need to test negative for the coronavirus before boarding a plane bound for Canada, starting on Jan. 7.