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.
For 11 months Canadians have been counselled to stay home. But given the time and stillness to reflect what they want from a home, many have found the pandemic has nudged them to change their surroundings.
Behind closed doors, the Office of the Chief Coroner is examining the deaths of migrant workers who contracted COVID-19 on Ontario farms last spring in a confidential review that is proceeding without key representatives of temporary foreign workers.
So March break will be in April, but that’s not the point. Well, it’s the point for some parents, and some kids. We’re coming up on a year of serious pandemic life, and I hope parents and kids are doing OK. We’re all trying to swim.
So March break will be in April, but that’s not the point. Well, it’s the point for some parents, and some kids. We’re coming up on a year of serious pandemic life, and I hope parents and kids are doing OK. We’re all trying to swim.
A rising surge of more contagious variants is pushing Ontario toward a third wave of COVID-19 unless transmission levels are reduced, vaccination rates boosted and stay-at-home orders extended, says the table of science experts advising Premier Doug Ford.
As the government eases restrictions this week in three areas of the province, with more regions to follow, experts say there’s no question that Ontario will experience a third wave of COVID-19, most likely by April.
Over the past few weeks, our newsfeeds have been filled with commentary about the relatively slow progression of the vaccine rollout in Canada. This commentary carries a number of criticisms, including condemnation of the negotiation blunders surrounding vaccine shipments, as well as Canada’s lack of capacity to manufacture vaccines domestically, ominous predictions of what this means for Canada’s economic status, and denunciation of Canada’s use of the COVAX program to procure additional vaccines at the expense of lower-income countries.
Two weeks after Christmas, Premier Doug Ford took to the podium to announce somberly that Ontario was in a “desperate situation” with record-breaking COVID-19 numbers.