coronavirus Monday.Health authorities say one of those fatalities took place within the last 24 hours, while the other deaths were retroactively added to the tally.Over the course of the pandemic, the province has seen a total of 288,353 cases and 10,399 deaths.

Recoveries have now topped 270,000. Quebec expands COVID-19 vaccinations to include younger seniors as mass inoculation begins Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 saw an increase, with 11 more patients for a total of 612.

The number of patients in intensive care stands at 122, up five from the previous day.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Quebec’s mass vaccination rollout began Monday with the inoculation campaign now targetting members.

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Covid-19: Karnataka adds 622 cases, three more fatalities

BENGALURU : Karnataka on Sunday recorded 622 fresh coronavirus infections and three related deaths, taking the total caseload and toll to 9.55 lakh and 12,362 respectively, health department said. According to the health bulletin, so far 9,35,772 people were discharged cumulatively including 351 today.

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Brits warned to 'prepare for a hard winter' with Covid variants and flu concerns

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March Madness? Pitino's whole 1st season at Iona maddening

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – By the time Rick Pitino got to town, the coronavirus was already there.

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N.S. records 2 cases of COVID-19, 2 people in hospital

Nova Scotia reports 6 new cases of COVID-19, cases confirmed within Halifax police There are currently 29 active cases in the province. Two people are in hospital, including one person in ICU.“Seeing a low number of cases today is encouraging.

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New pop-up FEMA vaccine site opens at Kelly Park in Apopka

APOPKA, Fla. – FEMA opened a new pop-up vaccination site at Kelly Park in Apopka on Sunday.

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Ontario reports nearly 1,300 new coronavirus cases, 15 more deaths

coronavirus Sunday, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 308,296.“Locally, there are 329 new cases in Toronto, 192 in Peel and 116 in York Region,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said.A total of 290,840 COVID-19 cases are considered resolved, which is up by 1,105 and is 94.3 per cent of all confirmed cases.Fifteen additional deaths were also reported on Sunday, bringing the provincial death toll to 7,067.Nearly 46,600 additional tests were completed. Ontario has now completed a total of 11,398,354 tests and 20,057 remain under investigation.

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Ayrshire towns and villages are suppressing coronavirus cases.

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Maharashtra district imposes night curfew, full lockdown on weekends amid surge in Covid cases: Details here

Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, the Sambhajinaga district in Aurangabad on Sunday ordered night restrictions from 9 pm to 6 am from 11 March to 4 April to contain virus spread.Along with that, there will be full lockdown on weekends, said Maharashtra Minister Eknath Shinde.During this period, schools, colleges, wedding halls to remain closed, he added.The announcement comes after a meeting was conducted with district authorities and other officials amid surge in Covid-19 cases there.The district reported 459 coronavirus cases on Friday, which took its overall infection count to 52,103.Till Friday night, there were 2,910 active cases in Aurangabad district, another official said.A total of 179 patients were discharged from hospitals, which

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Tamil Nadu reports 567 fresh Covid-19 cases, one death in 24 hours

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COVID-19 travel insurance becoming a vacation staple

COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus.Airline bookings are on the rise in some regions, driving cautious hopes of a revival in summer traffic, but also raising fears among tourist destinations of getting hit with bills should vacationers become stranded by the virus.More than a dozen countries from Aruba to Thailand require COVID-19 coverage for visitors, with Jordan the latest to consider such protections, organizers of an emergency services plan told Reuters.The market for all types of COVID-19 travel coverage is estimated to be between $30 billion to

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Sunshine State dims for Dems amid election losses, cash woes

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Democrats may delight in their brightening prospects in Arizona and Georgia, and may even harbor glimmers of hope in Texas, but their angst is growing in Florida, which has a reputation as a swing state but now favors Republicans and could be shifting further out of reach for Democrats.

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Ontario PSW pay gap hurts home care services, advocate group says, calls for more funding

Ontario’s drive to bolster staffing in long-term care homes hit hard by COVID-19 is leading to “destabilization” of the province’s home care labour force, a group representing providers said Sunday as it pressed the government to standardize wages for personal support workers.Sue VanderBent, the CEO of Home Care Ontario, said a group of 50 service organizations is concerned with increasing worker movement from home care to higher wage jobs in long-term care homes, where personal support workers are paid an average of $5 an hour more than they earn in community care settings.The rate at which workers accept home-care assignments, a key indicator for service delivery levels, have dropped by nearly 40 per cent in recent months, she said.

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UK Covid hospital deaths rise by 111 in lowest Sunday increase since October

The UK's daily coronavirus hospital deaths have increased by 111 in the lowest Sunday rise for over four months.

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Rita Wilson Reflects on Coronavirus Diagnosis With Tom Hanks One Year Later

Rita Wilson is remembering what happened a year ago.

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Dancing on Ice’s raucous end of show party has been cancelled because of coronavirus

DANCING on Ice’s raucous end of show party has been cancelled because of Coronavirus. ITV show bosses have pulled the plug on the annual shindigs because of strict social distance protocol to help stop the spread of the virus, The Sun can reveal.

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Maharashtra sees more than 11,000 new Covid-19 cases in a day, highest in over 5 months

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2,100 fresh coronavirus cases, 13 deaths in Kerala

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : Kerala recorded 2,100 new COVID-19 cases and 13 related deaths on Sunday taking the total affected in the state to 10.77 lakh and the toll to 4,300. Health Ministetr K K Shailaja said the southern state has tested 51,948 samples in the last 24 hours and the test positivity rate was 4.04 per cent.

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Coronavirus nearing ‘endemic’ phase in Delhi, says Health Minister Satyendar Jain

NEW DELHI : Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday said coronavirus was nearing an "endemic" phase in the national capital.An infection is said to be endemic in a population when it is constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographic area without external inputs."Coronavirus is nearing an endemic phase in Delhi. Experts say some cases continue to occur in the endemic phase.

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UK schools to reopen, backed by frequent virus testing

LONDON – British students, backed by a robust coronavirus testing program, are gearing up to return to school Monday after a two-month closure, in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson says is a plan to get the country “moving closer to a sense of normality.”

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Greece tells Brits to book summer holidays as tourist islands are prioritised for Covid vaccines

direct to your inboxGreece has assured hopeful Britons longing for a summer holiday that they can go ahead and book.The country's tourism minister has said they are prioritising coronavirus vaccinations for the tourism sector, with small islands in line first.These include Halki, near Rhodes, Kastellorizo, Meganisi, and Kythira.There are around 40 Greek islands with a population of less than 1,000, making the vaccine rollout easier in those places, the minister said.Larger destinations including Mykonos and Corfu will be targeted next.

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BOSTON – The SolarWinds hacking campaign blamed on Russian spies and the “grave threat” it poses to U.S. national security are widely known. A very different — and no less alarming — coordinated series of intrusions also detected in December has gotten considerably less public attention.

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We are in the endgame of Covid-19 pandemic in India: Harsh Vardhan

NEW DELHI : "We are in the end game of the Covid-19 pandemic in India" and to succeed at this stage, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said, politics should be kept out the Covid-19 vaccination drive.He said people should trust the science behind vaccines and ensure that their near and dear ones get vaccinated on time.Speaking at the Delhi Medical Association's (DMA's) 62nd Annual Delhi State Medical Conference (MEDICON 2021) in collaboration with Dharamshila Narayana Hospital on Sunday, Vardhan said over 2 crore COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered so far and the vaccination rate has been increased to 15 lakhs per day. "Unlike most other countries, we have a steady supply of COVID-19 vaccines that are safe with proven

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Mandatory quarantine to prevent spread of Covid-19 signed into law

The Bill providing for the mandatory quarantine of people entering the State from certain areas to prevent the spread of Covid-19 has been signed into law.

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Coronavirus prompts some recent newcomers to leave Canada for their home countries

COVID-19 pandemic has prompted some recent immigrants to leave Canada and return to their countries of origin, where they have more social and family connections.The number of permanent residents who have been in Canada for less than five years declined by four per cent to 1,019,000 by the end of 2020 from 1,060,000 the year before, according to an analysis of Statistics Canada’s labour force survey that measures the number of workers between 15 and 65 years old by their immigration status.

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Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli receives first jab of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine

यस अभियानमा सहभागी हुन म सबै दिदीबहिनी तथा दाजुभाइहरूलाई आह्वान गर्न चाहन्छु।https://t.co/dr2fZWh2rPAccording to The Himalayan Times, in the second phase, people over 65 years all across the country will get inoculated against the coronavirus.Nepal earlier this year received one million doses of Covishield vaccine from India in grant assistance and procured another two million vaccines from its Southern neighbour out of which one million is awaited.The vaccine developed locally by the Serum Institute of India (SII) is the only vaccine being administered in the Himalayan nation.India, under the Vaccine Maitri initiative, has been providing coronavirus vaccines to its neighbouring countries.The Government of Nepal from Sunday is set to start

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Britain will have to “prepare for a hard winter”, a medical chief warned today amid fears flu and new strains of coronavirus could surge at the same time.

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Delhi: 286 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths recorded in 24 hrs, positivity rate dips

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Over 85% staff of Delhi Prisons received Covid-19 vaccine shots: Officials

NEW DELHI : The Delhi Prisons Department said that around 85% jail staff and over 58% of security personnel deployed in three jails under it have received Covid-19 vaccine shots.The Delhi Prisons comprises Tihar, Rohini and Mandoli jails.A senior jail official said there are around 2,000 jail staff, out of which, 1,700 staff have been vaccinated. Out of around 1,700 security personnel deployed with Delhi Prisons and who have registered on Co-WIN portal, 1,000 personnel have got the coronavirus vaccine shots, he said.Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel said the department has encouraged its staff to get the vaccine shots."We have been encouraging the jail staff and security personnel to get the vaccine.

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Vaccine shortages in Los Angeles; people aged 56-59 in England to get jab

In the US, Los Angeles County in California is now facing problems like low vaccination rates in clusters of ethnic minority communities as well as a shortage of vaccine supplies in their battle against the Covid-19 pandemic.

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People aged 56-59 now invited to get coronavirus vaccine

direct to your inboxPeople aged between 56 and 59 are now being invited to book coronavirus vaccinations, NHS England said.From Saturday, hundreds of thousands of letters are beginning to land on the doorsteps of the age group.The latest round of invites comes as NHS England says eight in 10 people aged 65-69 took up the offer of a jab.So far, more than 18 million people across the country have already received a jab - more than one third of the adult population.And across the whole of the UK, more than a million people have received both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, while almost 21.4 million people have had one dose.Dr Nikki Kanani, NHS England national medical director for primary care, said: “The NHS vaccine programme is committed to

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New Brunswick moves to yellow phase of COVID-19 recovery

COVID-19 recovery.Tighter restrictions were imposed in early 2021 after a post-holiday spike in cases that saw more confirmed coronavirus cases in New Brunswick in January than in the previous nine months combined.The yellow phase will look different than the previous restriction levels under yellow, but many businesses in Saint John say they’re looking forward to the change.Liz Miller, owner of Good Fibrations textile shop in uptown Saint John, said she’s hopeful the province didn’t make the change too quickly, especially with March Break just wrapping up and any increase in cases not reflected in the move to yellow.She said she only allows a maximum of four people into her store under the current orange restriction level.Miller said it’s

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The Latest: Israel in final phase of easing of lockdown

JERUSALEM — Israel has opened most of its economy as part of its final phase of lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, some of them in place since September.

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Russia scores points with vaccine diplomacy, but snags arise

MOSCOW – Russia's boast in August that it was the first country to authorize a coronavirus vaccine led to skepticism at the time because of its insufficient testing. Six months later, as demand for the Sputnik V vaccine grows, experts are raising questions again — this time, over whether Moscow can keep up with all the orders from the countries that want it.

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6 states including Maharashtra, Kerala continue to see rise in daily Covid cases

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China exports spike to highest in decades after Covid-19 hit

Strong data despite off-seasonChina's foreign trade data remained strong despite the "off-season", the customs authority said Sunday.Trade was also high due to a recovery in production and consumption in major economies such as Europe and the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic, as well as improvements in domestic consumption.Although business activity usually falls during the Lunar New Year period when workers return to their hometowns, official appeals to avoid travelling this year to keep the Covid-19 outbreak in check supported production, the customs administration added."Many enterprises in major foreign trade provinces such as Guangdong and Zhejiang maintained production during the Lunar New Year," it said.

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Chinese exports surge as global demand recovers from virus

BEIJING – China’s exports surged 60.6% over a year earlier in the first two months of 2021, after factories reopened and global demand started to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Pope visits Iraq's war-ravaged north on last day of tour

IRBIL – Pope Francis arrived in northern Iraq on Sunday, where he planned to pray in the ruins of churches damaged or destroyed by Islamic State extremists and celebrate an open-air Mass on the last day of the first-ever papal visit to the country.

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Another ex-aide calls Cuomo's office conduct inappropriate

NEW YORK – Another woman who worked for Gov. Andrew Cuomo is describing conduct she felt was inappropriate for the workplace.

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India covid update: Active cases tally goes up again, 2.10 crore vaccinated

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Canada adds 21 new COVID-19 deaths as total cases near 850K

COVID-19 on Saturday, pushing the country’s total caseload past 844,000.Another 21 deaths linked to the virus were reported as well, with the country’s death toll from COVID-19 standing at 22,213. A total of 831.901 patients have since recovered from contracting the virus, however, while over 25.57 million tests and 2.32 million vaccine doses have since been administered.The new data comes amid new updates from the country’s top doctor, who said that there have been no unexpected safety issues with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine across the country.

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Educators now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine in New Jersey

TRENTON - New Jersey on Saturday opened COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to include teachers and staff from pre-K to 12th grade as the most densely populated state in the country continues its arduous vaccine rollout. Touring one of New Jersey's six mass vaccination clinics at Rowan College, Gov. Phil Murphy addressed the challenges presented by vaccinating teachers who spend most of their weekdays teaching students.

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Visits to resume at Delaware prisons as virus caseload falls

DOVER - Inmates at Delaware prisons will be able to receive visitors later this month as coronavirus cases among inmates and the population at large continue to drop.The Delaware Department of Corrections announced Friday that in-person visits can resume starting March 16. Those wishing to visit will be able to schedule appointments starting Monday.In-person visits were suspended in November as COVID-19 cases increased across the state and among inmates.The most recent report from the state shows that seven of its eight correctional facilities don’t have any active coronavirus cases among inmates.

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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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