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COVID-19: 9 new cases confirmed in Simcoe Muskoka

COVID-19 cases in the region on Wednesday, bringing the local total number of cases up to 12,172, including 246 deaths.Local public health also reported 10 new cases of a coronavirus variant on Wednesday, bringing that total to 4,826, 87 of which are active.

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COVID-19 vaccinations slow down as infectious delta variant spreads

WASHINGTON - As cases tumble and states reopen, the potential final stage in the U.S. campaign to vanquish COVID-19 is turning into a slog, with a worrisome variant gaining a bigger foothold and lotteries and other prizes failing to persuade some Americans to get vaccinated."The last half, the last mile, the last quarter-mile always requires more effort," Dr.

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COVID-19: B.C. reports four new deaths, 113 new cases amid Step 2 reopening

COVID-19 on Wednesday, along with four additional deaths.It marked a slight uptick from the 108 cases reported Tuesday, but still saw the seven-day average for new cases decrease to 119.In a written statement, health officials said the number of active cases in the province had fallen again, to 1,454.Of the new cases, 27 Were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 51 were in the Fraser Health region, four were in the Island Health region and 31 were in the Interior Health region. There were no new cases in the Northern Health region.

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COVID-19 ward in Quebec long-term care home lacked equipment, water: nurse

COVID-19 pandemic depleted staff at Laval long-term care home where 100 died, inquest hears The room contained no bathroom and no running water, she added. For residents who couldn’t be washed with wet cloths, hot water had to be fetched from the kitchen in a green zone.

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N.B. to begin Phase2 of its reopening plan

Just one day after entering the first phase of its “Path to Green” reopening plan, New Brunswick will surge ahead into Phase 2 as of midnight, officials announced Wednesday. That phase, originally intended to begin on July 1, will bring looser COVID-19 restrictions and more travel into the province.

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COVID-19: Waterloo officials warn region may not move to Stage 2 of reopening with Ontario

COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible amid a surge in cases due to the Delta variant.Medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang told the regional council on Wednesday afternoon that the variant is becoming the predominant strain in the region.She also warned that the region may not be able to move into Stage 2 of the province’s reopening plan with the rest of Ontario.The warning comes on the same day that Waterloo Region posted the highest number of new cases than any other health unit in the province with 71 new positive tests, locally.

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Wealthy B.C. couple who jumped COVID vaccine queue in the Yukon plead guilty, issued fines

COVID-19 vaccine in the Yukon earlier this year.Rod and Ekaterina Baker appeared via video link, entering guilty pleas to two charges each under Yukon’s Civil Emergency Measures Act.The court was asking for the maximum fines to be laid in this case.The Bakers were each fined $1,150 – $500 for each charge plus a $75 surcharge.They will not serve any time in jail.In January, the Bakers travelled to the remote community of Beaver Creek in a private plane and misrepresented themselves to get their first doses.They had reportedly ignored the territory’s 14-day mandatory quarantine rules upon arrival and were eventually fined $575 each and charged under Yukon’s Civil Emergency Measures Act.Rod Baker also subsequently stepped down as president and

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COVID-19: How to protect children who are too young for a vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine.“I just avoid the bigger stores, like the dollar store, the grocery store, that I know are more full,” she said.Her son Sebastien is also too young to wear a face mask, so O’Keefe said she spends as much time as possible outdoors at the park.“I’ll avoid the playground a little bit more if it’s busy,” she said.Finally, O’Keefe is doing her part to protect her son and three-year-old daughter, by getting vaccinated.

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Gogglebox's Lee Riley nearly breaks Cyprus' Covid curfew rules in visit to partner Steve

Gogglebox star Lee Riley celebrated making it home before midnight by posting a selfie of him and long-term partner Steve, who lives in Cyprus.

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CDC: Delta variant now 10% of US COVID-19 cases

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday said that Delta, a highly transmissible COVID-19 variant first identified in India and currently sweeping through the United Kingdom, now makes up at least 10% of all US cases. On May 22, the variant had made up only 2.7% of cases.

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Biden queries China's desire to find origin of coronavirus

GENEVA : US President Joe Biden said China was trying to project itself as a responsible nation in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remained unclear whether Beijing was really trying to understand the origins of the coronavirus.Asked if he would call Chinese President Xi Jinping as "old friend to old friend" to ask him to re-admit World Health Organization investigators, Biden said: "Let's get something straight: We know each other well, we're not old friends.

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Global COVID cases continue decline, though many countries still struggle

Weekly COVID-19 cases dropped to their lowest level since February, though many countries are still struggling with sparse vaccine supply, the spread of variants, and overburdened health systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly snapshot of the pandemic.

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VA must modernize supply chain amid COVID-19, GAO says

In the Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) latest report yesterday, the agency recommends that the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) develop a supply chain management strategy, including an explanation of how all its supply chain initiatives relate to each other.

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Saskatchewan reports 2 new COVID-19 deaths, 92 patients in hospital

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US buys additional 200 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Biden administration has purchased an additional 200 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, the company announced Wednesday — an extra supply that could potentially be used for children or as a booster shot if needed.Moderna said in a statement that the latest purchase brings the total amount ordered to 500 million doses, including 110 million doses that are expected to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2021 and another 90 million in the first quarter of 2022. The company said 217 million doses have already been delivered. Nearly 130 million of those doses have been administered in the U.S.

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Antibody combo cuts COVID deaths by 20% in very ill seronegative patients

Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment lowers the risk of death from COVID-19 by 20% in hospitalized patients with severe illness who haven't produced a natural immune response, according to preliminary results of the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) phase 3 trial. The results were published on the medRxiv preprint server yesterday.

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Ayrshire mum with breast cancer issues Covid warning after getting disease despite being fully vaccinated

Ayrshire mum currently being treated for breast cancer has been dealt a fresh blow after receiving a Covid diagnosis despite being fully vaccinated. Steff Lynch, 32, was given the devastating news that she had stage 1 grade 2 breast cancer just four days before Christmas last year.

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Hamilton reports 19 new COVID-19 cases, 430K vaccine doses administered

COVID-19 cases on Wednesday and another drop in active cases day over day by 16 to check-in at 180 as of June 16.More than 68 per cent of the city’s 180 active cases are among people under the age of 50, with about 23 per cent of cases with those aged 19 and under. Ontario reports 384 new COVID-19 cases, administers record of 203K vaccinations in a day There was just a single outbreak reported in the city on Tuesday, at the Salvation Army shelter on York Boulevard involving a single staffer.Two outbreaks were declared over at a Dairy Queen in Stoney Creek which had five staff cases in a surge that lasted 14 days.The St.

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News Scan for Jun 16, 2021

An analysis of data from 211 Connecticut nursing homes found that facilities that cared for mainly racial and ethnic minority residents had higher levels of COVID-19 illnesses and deaths. A team based at the University of Rochester in New York reported their findings today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.The 10-week time span they focused on was Apr 12, 2020, to Jun 19, 2020. Authors

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COVID-19: HKPR Health Unit to see ‘most vaccine in the region to-date’ in next few weeks

Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit says a large shipment of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines is on the way to the region and is expected to arrive on the weekend.Combine this with approximately 9,300 Pfizer doses received each week this month and the health unit is on the cusp of having an abundance of vaccine.“In the next two to three weeks, we will have expanded opportunities to access vaccination appointments,” Dr. Natalie Bocking told reporters during her weekly virtual media conference on Wednesday.

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Waterloo Region is the worst for COVID-19, according to province’s numbers

Ontario reports 384 new COVID-19 cases, administers record of 203K vaccinations in a day The rest of the top five included Peel (60), Toronto (54), Middlesex-London (23) and Ottawa (21).The province’s numbers differ from the region’s numbers as Ontario’s numbers are from 4 p.m. Tuesday, while the local ones are from midnight.Waterloo Public Health reports its numbers at 1:30 p.m.

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Seven COVID-19 deaths reported in Manitoba Wednesday

Manitoba aiming to open 2nd dose COVID-19 vaccination to everyone by next week The number of COVID-19 deaths in the province since the beginning of the pandemic is now 1,111.As of Wednesday morning, the net-new number of cases in Manitoba is 143, the majority (80 cases) of which are in the Winnipeg region.The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 9.7 per cent provincially and 9.2 per cent in Winnipeg.

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COVID-19: 26 cases in London-Middlesex as more become eligible for second-dose re-bookings

Twenty-six new COVID-19 cases have been reported in London-Middlesex, local health officials said on Wednesday.They bring the region’s pandemic case total to 12,475, of which 12,137 have resolved. A total of 223 virus-related deaths have been reported, most recently on Tuesday.At least 115 cases are active in the region, the health unit says.

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COVID-19: Some Ontario school boards ditch ‘quadmester’ system for upcoming school year

Ontario schools to remain closed to in-person learning until September The move comes after the Ministry of Education issued a directive that school boards allow only two 150-minute classes each day in order to prevent kids from mixing with too many of their peers, for fear they might spread COVID-19.The pre-pandemic norm was 300 minutes of class time, usually divided into 60-minute periods.The quadmester system, put in place for the 2020/2021 school year, saw students take two courses at a time for a period of roughly nine weeks.Ontario’s science table says schools can safely reopen on regional basisThe Halton District School Board, for one, has said it would prefer to offer standard semesters without the overlong classes, and that the

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COVID-19: Saskatchewan family recounts 146-day hospital stay

‘Waiting for my time to die’: COVID-19 patients, families recount time spent in Regina ICUs Two days later, doctors diagnosed Richard with COVID-19 and put him in intensive care.Richard said he doesn’t remember much of the next 20 days as he was heavily sedated and intubated — “everything they could do to keep me alive.”Richard’s intubation tube was removed on Feb. 6 but it took time for him to wake up from the sedation.“It took him — when he started to wake up — a good week-and-a-half before he was alert,” Sandra said.Sandra said her husband was taken to Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon on Feb.

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Title IX protection extends to LGBTQ+ students, Education Department says

WASHINGTON - A year after the Supreme Court ruled that protections in the Civil Rights Act against discrimination in the workplace extended to gay and transgender people, the U.S.

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COVID-19 vaccination drive to take place at Edmonton Islamic centre

COVID-19 vaccinations for three days in an effort to remove barriers and address vaccine hesitancy, the provincial government announced Wednesday.Up to 1,200 Albertans will be able to receive a mRNA vaccine at the Muslim Association of Canada Islamic Centre Rahma Mosque. COVID-19: Calgarian hopes vaccine passport technology takes off “We are thrilled to be working with MAC and this community to help more people get their vaccine,” Health Minister Tyler Shandro said in a news release on Wednesday.“We are working hard to remove barriers and help all communities access the vaccine.The clinic will run from 4 p.m.

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DRDO's 2-DG covid drug effective against all variants, claims preliminary study

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A chronicle of crises foretold: We must brace for likely covid waves

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Covid vaccination: Over 26.53 crore doses administered in India, says govt

coronavirus vaccine shots administered in India has gone past 26.53 crore, including more than 4.81 crore doses administered to people in the 18-44 age group, the health ministry has said.It said 20,67,085 beneficiaries in the 18-44 age group received the first dose and 67,447 got the second dose of the vaccine in the country on Wednesday.Cumulatively, 4,72,06,953 people in the said age group have received the first dose and 9,68,098 have been given the second dose since the start of the third phase of the vaccination campaign across the nation.Some states including Bihar, New Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have

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Facebook expands fact-checking in India, adds health-specialist partner amid Covid concerns

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Sonia took both doses of Covid vaccine, Rahul Gandhi's vaccination delayed: Cong

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Over 5,300 new COVID-19 vaccines given in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph

COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, raising the total doses administered to 229,435.The latest data shows 196,683 residents over the age of 12 have received at least one dose, which equates to 72.9 per cent of the eligible population. Another 1,799 first-dose vaccinations have been reported within the last day.

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Still no winners for $70M Lotto Max jackpot, prize pool continues to climb

Lotto Max jackpot remains unclaimed as top prizing reaches new record Twenty of those tickets were sold in Ontario with $1 million winners being sold in Brampton (2), Willowdale, Mississauga, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Burlington, Halton Region, Niagara Region, the Parry Sound/Nipissing area, Kenora/Rainy River area and Renfrew County.Tickets that split $1 million prizes were sold in Simcoe County, York Region, Brantford, Huron County and Mississauga while one lucky winner purchased a ticket on OLG.ca.Other sold in Woodbridge and Willowdale will claim a third of the jackpot.Eight others were sold in Quebec and B.C.

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Doctor criticises Jon Stewart for backing Wuhan lab COVID-19 theory

COVID-19 began in an accidental lab leak.Stewart voiced his comments on Stephen Colbert‘s Late Show on June 14, and has since come under fire.Colbert had asked Stewart for his thoughts on the “science” behind virus detection and prevention.“I think we owe a great deal of gratitude to science,” Stewart replied.To laughter from the audience, the comedian added: “Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of the pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.”Watch the interview below.Colbert followed up by asking Stewart: “‘Do you mean perhaps there’s a chance that this was created in a lab?”Stewart replied: “Oh my god, there’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we do? Oh you know who we should

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Manitoba aiming to open 2nd dose COVID-19 vaccination to everyone by next week

COVID-19 vaccine appointments open to everyone eligible for the shot by the end of next week.The move comes as officials from the province’s vaccine implementation task force said Wednesday slightly more than 300,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to arrive in Manitoba by the end of June. Manitoba again expands 2nd-dose COVID-19 vaccine eligibility Officials say the deliveries will allow the province to administer more than 20,000 doses per day.As of Wednesday morning, second dose appointments are available to anyone who got their first shot on or before May 10, but officials have been expanding that availability around 11:45 a.m.

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England to make Covid-19 vaccinations compulsory for healthcare workers

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Maharashtra logs 10,107 Covid cases, 237 deaths in 24 hours; Mumbai sees 821 new infections

Maharashtra reported 10,107 new Covid-19 cases and 237 fatalities, taking the count of infections to 59,34,880 and the death toll to 1,15,390 while 10,567 patients recovered in a span of 24 hours, the state health department said on Wednesday. The state also added 999 deaths to its tally as part of the ongoing data reconciliation exercise.

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Dwayne Johnson beats the Covid-19 vaccine and Dolly Parton to top People’s list of reasons to love America

he told People.‘And things like this, I’m always appreciative. We’re here in Hawaii, where I did a lot of my growing up … I was just Dwayne Johnson, the kid who’s having a hard time going to school making his classes.‘I never expected in my wildest of wild dreams that I would ever be in a position to be on the cover of People – and certainly not with this kind of title.’The star confessed he and his family, like many others, were shaken by the coronavirus pandemic and he took to imagining had to go to work every day in order to help himself through it mentally.The former WWE wrestler, who went under the name The Rock, and wife Lauren Hashian share daughters Jasmine, five, and three-year-old Tia.

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London, Ont. researchers to study pandemic’s impact on those who gave birth during COVID-19

Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University in London, Ont., are hoping to recruit 300 people who have given birth at London Health Sciences Centre during the pandemic for a study looking into potential health impacts associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.Researchers hope that, once complete, the data will be used to help improve post-partum care. Mental health visits for new moms rose 30% during COVID-19 pandemic, study shows “This has been a stressful and pivotal time for everyone in the world, but we know the post-partum experience can greatly affect both the birthing person and their baby, in the short and long term,” says associate scientist and OB-GYN Dr.

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Details of plans to ease COVID-19 travel rules coming within days: minister

Omar Alghabra says the government’s plans for a phased reopening of the border to international travel following COVID-19 restrictions will be shared “in the coming days.”In the meantime, he said talks are happening now between the government and the airports and airlines to make sure they can be ready for when those travel rules begin to relax.“In the coming days, we’re going to be announcing details about the phasing of reopening or adjusting travel measures,” Alghabra told journalists on Wednesday when pressed on plans to reopen the border.“We’ve been in contact with airports, with airline companies and other companies who support the aviation sector about our plan.

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‘I don’t belong here’: NDP MP alleges racial profiling, barriers during time in office

Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, 27, was elected in 2019 and said during her speech that in the nearly two years since, she has repeatedly been made to feel that she does not belong.“Every time I walk onto House of Commons grounds, speak in these chambers, I am reminded every step of the way I don’t belong here,” she said.“I have never felt safe or protected in my position, especially within the House of Commons.” Qaqqaq said security guards on the Hill have jogged after her down hallways, “nearly put their hands on me and racial profiled me.”The experience has taught her “as a brown woman, do not move too quickly or suddenly, do not raise your voice, do not make a scene, maintain eye contact and don’t hide your hands.”Qaqqaq said she has heard many

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Nova Scotia reports 8 new COVID-19 cases out of more than 5,100 tests

The province said on Wednesday there is little community spread in Central Zone. Eastern, Northern and Western zones continue to be closely monitored for community spread, the province said.As of Wednesday, Nova Scotia has 92 active cases of COVID-19.

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The delta variant of SARS-CoV-2: What do we know about it?

B.1.617.2 lineage — was first identified by scientists in December 2020 in India.In April 2021, the delta variant became the most commonly spread variant that caused new COVID-19 cases in India.

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Second COVID wave impacts bank deposits, currency holding with public: RBI report

Mumbai: Bank deposits and currency holding with the public have been adversely impacted during the second COVID wave, indicating a heavy outgo towards pandemic-induced medical expenditure, an RBI article said on Wednesday.Bank deposits -- having a share of around 55 per cent in total assets of households -- decelerated by 0.1 per cent at end-April 2021 on a m-o-m (month-on-month) basis as against a growth of 1.1 per cent in April 2020.The rate of decline in bank deposits vis-a-vis bank credit has also been higher, indicating that this time around the banking sector component of household savings declined.

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COVID-19: Phase 2 update expected at second N.B. briefing in as many days

COVID-19: N.B. reaches 1st vaccination target, begins to loosen restrictions Phase 2, originally slated to begin July 1, includes opening up the province to others in Atlantic Canada, and to the rest of the country for people with one dose of the vaccine.That phase will come into effect when 20 per cent of New Brunswickers 65 and older have received their second dose.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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