MONTREAL–Quebec is reporting 1,934 new cases of COVID-19 today and 47 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including 13 within the preceding 24 hours.
It’s the second day in a row - and the third day since Dec. 17 - Quebec has reported fewer than 2,000 new infections.
OTTAWA–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has secured an extra 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19, saying a faster rollout is the key to returning to some version of normality.
TORONTO–Ontario’s health system will be overwhelmed and deaths from COVID-19 will exceed those in the pandemic’s first wave unless there is a significant reduction in contacts between residents, data released Tuesday indicates.
MONTREAL - Police forces across Quebec handed out dozens of tickets to people protesting the province's new COVID-19-related curfew shortly after it went into effect at last night.
TORONTO - RCMP officers, custodial and clerical education workers and postal staff are among the expanded list of essential workers cleared to receive free child-care while thousands of Ontario students attend school remotely in the coming weeks, the province's education minister announced Saturday.
TORONTO - Ontario's cabinet is set to meet later today to consider new measures to combat skyrocketing rates of COVID-19.
A government source says officials worked on new recommendations through the weekend that will be presented to cabinet tonight.
The meeting comes ahead of new COVID-19 projections that are set to be made public on Tuesday.
TORONTO - A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots.
While most of those on the pandemic front lines are eager to get their doses, a small but significant minority have indicated their opposition to mandatory vaccinations.
SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. - Residents at an extended care home in Sioux Lookout, Ont., will be vaccinated against COVID-19 today.
A spokeswoman from Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre says staff will administer the shots at its William A. George facility this afternoon.
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford says the province will make an announcement later today on whether schools will reopen for many students next week.
Ford says he received new data Wednesday night that indicates COVID-19 positivity rates amongst children have been increasing.
He says that data has caused concern about the reopening of schools.
TORONTO–Ontario defended its COVID-19 vaccination efforts Monday as the province confirmed three more cases of a contagious new strain of the virus.
