The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
If you’ve spent any time on social media this week, you’ve come across scores of selfies from Gen X’ers — sleeves rolled up to their shoulders — receiving hand-clapping emojis and other kudos for getting their AstraZeneca jabs.
A new study looking at the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies in blood donors finds that the risk of contracting the virus in Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods increased by over 400 per cent between the end of the first wave last year and January 2021.
Pharmacist Kyro Maseh says coming in to work used feel like going to war. Every morning, he’d kiss his kids goodbye and hope he wouldn’t “bring death home” with him.
Ontario spends a lot of time complaining about vaccine supply. When Premier Doug Ford was hiding after Friday’s restrictions debacle, before it was revealed he had been exposed to a COVID case, his staff posted a picture of him staring intently at a laptop and said he was calling places like the European Union for vaccines. Canada, of course, has delivered more first doses of vaccines than any EU country but Hungary, which took Chinese vaccines. Maybe when you are still learning to work a laptop, mistakes are made.
Ontario spends a lot of time complaining about vaccine supply. When Premier Doug Ford was hiding after Friday’s restrictions debacle, before it was revealed he had been exposed to a COVID case, his staff posted a picture of him staring intently at a laptop and said he was calling places like the European Union for vaccines. Canada, of course, has delivered more first doses of vaccines than any EU country but Hungary, which took Chinese vaccines. Maybe when you are still learning to work a laptop, mistakes are made.
Many outdoor amenities in local parks were ordered shut by the provincial government in its latest attempt to reduce the rapid spread of COVID-19 across Ontario, but local health experts believe more of them should actually be left open.
With the province plunged in what has been called one of the strictest lockdowns in North America, Ontario health officials are holding up Thunder Bay as an example for what is possible.
Ontario is on track to receive nearly eight million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by the beginning of July, according to a forecasting schedule from the federal government.
There have been more pregnant women sick with COVID-19 in Ontario’s intensive care units in April than at any point in the pandemic, according to obstetricians who are calling on the provincial government to prioritize expectant mothers for vaccination.
His government under siege for its pandemic response, Premier Doug Ford is in seclusion at his late mother’s home after an aide tested positive for COVID-19.
Premier Doug Ford’s resistance to guaranteeing paid sick days to workers impacted by COVID-19 is one reason for the “stressful, disturbing” virus spread, Toronto Mayor John Tory said Wednesday.