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January 7, 2021   ·   0 Comments Written By ALYSSA PARKHILL Though the Province remains in lockdown, the numbers of COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Ontario reported 3,128 new cases on January 5, with 2,015 resolved and 52 resulting in death. The province has a new total of 197,360 cases with 166,790 resolved and 4,730 deaths. As the holiday break comes to an end, the numbers refuse to slowdown, especially in the hot spot areas.  Peel Region is showing 614 new cases, along with 778 new cases in Toronto and 213 in York Region.  The...

Ontario Update on COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution – January 5, 2021 Speaking briefly with journalists ahead of a meeting Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, General Rick Hillier, the task force chair, and Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, provide an update on the distribution of vaccines in the province. General Hillier announces that the province is aiming to vaccinate all residents and health-care workers in long-term care homes in Toronto, Peel, York, and Windsor-Essex by January 21, 2021. The general and the premier also warn that the province’s current supply of ...

Last Updated Thursday, December 31, 2020 1:01PM EST Health officials have begun to administer the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to long-term care residents in Ontario on Thursday. The vaccine was delivered around 9:30 a.m. to Chester Village, a long-term care home in Toronto’s Danforth neighbourhood that has yet to experience a serious outbreak of COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared. “It’s very emotional,” CEO Cynthia Marinelli told CTV News Toronto Thursday morning as the first batches of the Moderna vaccine were dropped at their doorstep. “W...

  TORONTO -- Health officials have begun to administer the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to long-term care residents in Ontario on Thursday. The vaccine was delivered around 9:30 a.m. to Chester Village, a long-term care home in Toronto’s Danforth neighbourhood that has yet to experience a serious outbreak of COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared. “It’s very emotional,” CEO Cynthia Marinelli told CTV News Toronto Thursday morning as the first batches of the Moderna vaccine were dropped at their doorstep. “We’ve been very fortunate here to be spared any signi...

More COVID-19 vaccines and feeling grateful in a pandemic: In The News for Dec. 30 Retired General Rick Hillier, Chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, responds to a question, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens, during a press conference at Queen's Park in Toronto on Friday, December 11, 2020. Retired Gen. Rick Hillier, who is leading the province's COVID-19 vaccination program, says the drug will be distributed to long-term care and retirement homes.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin December 30, 2020 - 1:21 AM In The News is a roundup ...