Canada's governments lift COVID-19 restrictions, even as pandemic rages
Canada’s governments lift COVID-19 restrictions, even as pandemic rages Canada recorded its 20,000th death from COVID-19 last Sunday. Of those 20,000 deaths, 5,000, or fully a quarter, came in the 36 days between December 26 and January 31—underscoring just how much more lethal the “second wave” of the pandemic is proving to be than last spring’s. In recent days, the number of daily new COVID-19 infections has fallen to around 4,000, as a result of a spate of late December-early January lockdown measures. But governments across Canada, flying in the face of the recommendations of th...
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