Date Published: July 7, 2020
Source: The Globe and Mail
Eighteen health leaders in Canada have called for a more “balanced approach” to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that the current approach carries “significant risks to overall population health and threatens to increase inequities across the country.” Canada has had success in controlling COVID-19 [...]
Date Published: July 6, 2020
Source: CBC
Wearing masks in public indoor spaces are now mandatory in eastern Ontario, including Ottawa, in Stage 2 of Ontario’s reopening plan. Exemptions will be made for children under two years of age and those who are unable to wear masks [...]
Date: July 4, 2020
Source: CBC
There have been 121 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday in Ontario, the lowest daily case count since June 26. Of the 121 new cases: 27 were in Toronto, 23 were in Peel, 20 were in York region, and 21 were in Windsor-Essex [...]
Date Published: July 4, 2020
Source: CNN
Segrià county in the Lleida region of northeastern Spain has been ordered back into lockdown, marking the first confinement order that Spain has imposed since lifting its national lockdown on June 21. The confinement applies to approximately 200,000 people, and will be monitored by 24 police checkpoints [...]
Date Published: July 3, 2020
Source: NBC News
The mayor of Miami-Dade county in southern Florida has announced an indefinite curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The move comes after beaches in southern Florida were ordered to be closed for the July 4th holiday weekend [...]
Date Published: July 2nd, 2020
Source: CBC
Large parts of Ontario are hoping to soon move towards Stage 3 of the province’s COVID-19 reopening plan. It has been nearly three weeks since most parts of the province have moved to Stage 2 and data from 24 public health units show that the spread of the virus is largely contained [...]
Date Published: June 29, 2020
Source: CBC
Ontario reported 257 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, 177 of which were confirmed by the Windsor-Essex public health unit following targeted testing of migrant farm workers over the weekend. Premier Doug Ford says that further testing is likely to find more cases at other farms in the region [...]
Date Published: June 29, 2020
Source: The Guardian
There are more than 10 million COVID-19 cases worldwide.
In the US, infections in 29 of the 50 states are increasing, and had their largest daily increase in cases, 44,000, this past Friday. The Republican governors of Florida, Texas and Arizona, three of the five states with the largest number of infections, have been criticised for pushing for aggressive reopenings following lockdown [...]
Date Published: 06/28/20
Source: Global News
As of Sunday, there have been over 10 million lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus globally, six months after the first case was reported in Wuhan, China. Most countries that were hit hard by COVID-19 near the beginning of the year have slowly flattened their curves [...]
Date Published: June 23, 2020
Source: The Globe and Mail
There have been rising rates of COVID-19 in children and teenagers in Canada, which has experts worried about young people possibly spreading the virus to vulnerable groups. Individuals younger than 20 years of age usually experience a mild form of COVID-19, however, 105 people in this age group have been hospitalized for COVID-19 in Canada [...]
