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Coronavirus Update: South Africa suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine after it's shown ineffective against variant

Feb. 7: South Africa pivoting to Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer vaccines after AstraZeneca testing showed it gave minimal protection against mild to moderate infection caused by the country’s dominant coronavirus variant

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Coronavirus Update: December COVID-19 vaccine deliveries cost Canada about $16-million: StatsCan

Feb. 5: Canada’s economy lost net 212,800 jobs in January and the unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 per cent

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Coronavirus Update: Vaccine makers turned down Ottawa's call for making their doses in Canada, government says


The Globe and Mail
Jessie Willms and Lacy Atalick
Published February 4, 2021
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Good evening, here are the coronavirus updates you need to know tonight.
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Last summer, the government asked every vaccine maker if they could make doses in Canada and all of them concluded they could not.
The government expects another disruption in shipments from Moderna on top of a 22-per-cent cut to this week’s delivery.

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Coronavirus Update: First made-in-Canada coronavirus vaccine gets tentative greenlight

Feb. 2: Trudeau calls the move ‘a major step forward to get vaccines made in Canada, for Canadians’

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Coronavirus Update: Canada's death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 20,000


Coronavirus Update: Canada’s death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 20,000
Jessie Willms
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30,596 cases were reported,
3,466 people are being treated in hospitals and
705,663 others are considered recovered.
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2.5 doses for every 100 people in Canada.
Sources: Canada data is compiled from government websites, Johns Hopkins and COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group; international data is from Johns Hopkins University.

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Coronavirus Update: Flights to Caribbean, Mexico halted, new testing requirements added as Ottawa cracks down on travel


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Lacy Atalick
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The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has proven effective against severe COVID-19 illness and new variants
In the last 7 days,
3,740 people are being treated in hospitals and
695,679 others are considered recovered.
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1,122,450 doses of vaccine distributed to provinces have been administered. That’s

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Coronavirus Update: Europe threatens to impose export ban on vaccines, but Canada's supply won't be affected, PM says

Jan. 26: Conservative health critic Michelle Rempel Garner says it’s a very real “concern” that all of Canada’s current vaccine doses come from Europe, amid the threat of an export ban

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Coronavirus Update: Great Canadian Gaming CEO resigns after alleged botched disguise as Yukon motel worker in attempt to get COVID-19 vaccine

Jan. 25: The CEO of Great Canadian Gaming Corp. and his wife were charged under Yukon’s emergency measures act for breaking quarantine rules and misleading authorities

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Coronavirus Update: A second long-term care home in Ontario is under investigation for British variant

Jan. 24: Ontario looking into whether the COVID-19 mutation is the source of infections at a second facility in Ontario after a deadly outbreak at another home

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Coronavirus Update: 1 million Canadians spent at least one night away from home over the holidays, despite public health warnings

Jan. 21: Location data from mobile phones indicates it was mostly those from white, affluent neighbourhoods who spent at least one night away from home over the holidays

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