On Twitter, Premier Doug Ford warned of turbulent waters in the coming months and said Ontario s health-care system is on the brink of being overwhelmed. Ford also said mass vaccinations won t start in the province until April at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the province s first night of a curfew to curb the spread of COVID-19 resulted in tickets being given out to small groups of anti-curfew protesters.
People wear face masks as they walk in Montreal on Sunday.(Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
Newfoundland and Labrador recorded its first new case in five days. According to the Department of Health, the case is related to international travel.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 22 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (KABC) As a symbol of solidarity, a team of local ICU nurses is honoring each other and their work to save coronavirus patients with some ink. We all decided to get a tattoo to commemorate our time together. So we got a tattoo, we all have them in different areas, some have them on their wrists, said Debbie Wooters, an ICU nurse.
According to the nurses at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, the tip of the spear represents the front line.
The slash marks represent the team and the heart is for the people they have lost.
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Just when things were starting to look up on the pandemic front, with a rollout of vaccines underway across the US and in several other countries, the latest news about COVID-19 has reminded us that we ve still got a long way to go. A more infectious strain of the virus, identified first in the UK and known as B.1.1.7, has been confirmed in at least 33 countries and five states (California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and Georgia).
Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it s likely that the B.1.1.7 strain has already spread to other states. I think it s pretty clear that if it s in places like California, and New York and Colorado… that pretty soon it s going to be in several more states, Dr. Fauci told