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Ontario plans to lower the boundaries to social gatherings in an effort to stop a recent accumulation of COVID-19 cases.
Prime Minister Doug Ford showed this decision, but he won’t say when the new fitness rules will be available. The existing limit for social gatherings is 50 internal and one hundred external people.
Provincial fitness officials have attributed the increase in cases largely to those who do not meet public aptitude rules at social gatherings.
As of 7 p. m. on Wednesday, there were 139,747 cases shown or suspected coronavirus in Canada. Provinces and territories indexed 122,449 of them as recovered or resolved. A CBC News death count based on provincial reports, regional fitness data, and CBC 9,235 reports.
Ontario reported 315 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, more than a share of them among others under the age of 40. Quebec reported 303 new cases, marking the first time since May 30 that the province has had more than 300 consistent cases. Alberta reported 171 new cases.
Ford has promised to take action in ontario areas where maximum cases have occurred: Toronto, Peel, and Ottawa, and also brazened additional blockages in those spaces if the number of virus cases is controlled.
According to infection epidemiologist Dr. Colin Furness, the outbreak is a sign of a wave of “vicious” moments or, more likely, a reflected image of recent fatigue with coronavirus rules and regulations. He says something that would help slow down the rise. is to close bars and restaurants.
“Right now, you can electronically book a large table in a place to eat with a lot of other people who don’t wear masks, but you can’t do the same in your living room,” he told CBC News. adapt to other people.
“We want a very transparent and undeniable rule. And really, we want to have other people who aren’t in the same airspace and don’t wear masks. “
With the sudden increase in cases that led to more people being reviewed, Canadians face multi-hour queues at COVID-19 control centers across the country, and some medical experts are asking Health Canada to approve new devices to deliver faster results.
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On Monday, concerned parents and their children had to wait 4 hours at ottawa’s primary screening center. A similar scene received those who received a check on Tuesday. At the William Osler Driver Detection Center in Toronto, citizens waited more than 3 hours.
Health Minister Patti Hajdu said Wednesday that the Canadian government is not yet in a position to implement immediate control because it is not yet satisfied with any of the features it has considered.
He said Health Canada would pass a check that somehow jeopardizes the fitness of Canadians.
“I will say that tests that do not have a degree of accuracy that satisfies regulators can do more harm in communities,” Hajdu said.
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration. He approved two antigenic devices several months ago.
Health officials in Ottawa are urging others who have no symptoms or have not been referred to avoid blocking verification sites.
Recently, there was what they described as registration lines at control centers, as positive controls in the city reached nods since early May.
Officials say most people who come to the tests don’t want to be there, resulting in a delay.
“Simply put, [do a screening test] if you have symptoms or have been referred for public health,” Ottawa health officer Vera Etches said at a press convention on Tuesday.
Epidemiologist Furness says that’s not a solution. He said anyone who thinks he’s been exposed to the virus is tested, whether they’re having symptoms or not.
“There are two schools of very opposing ideas among public fitness officials,” he said. “The first is that we deserve to restrict testing as a scarce resource and only use it when we want it. This attitudeArray . . . it’s absolute and harmful in my opinion. “
Instead, he said it would increase the testing capacity.
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As schools reopen in much of the country, there is fear about the growing number of COVID-19 cases among academics and the fear that not enough is being done for young people and teachers.
The School Board of the Windsor-Essex Catholic District of Ontario showed its first case of a student with COVID-19 in one of its schools, marking the first reported infection in a school.
Stella Maris Catholic Elementary School in Amherstburg, Ontario, was first informed of the diagnosis Tuesday morning, council officials said, and coVID positive classmates were fired all day and asked to isolate themselves for two weeks.
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“As soon as we realized the positive case, we contacted fitnessArray,” said Melissa Farrand, coVID-19 director of the school board. He said fitness then worked with the school principal to locate those who had been close to contact.
There have also been five positive cases of COVID-19 in Saskatoon schools and nurseries since students began to return to elegance last week.
“Due to the blocking times and protection protocols implemented lately, SHA decided that the threat to our school network was very low and there is no evidence of network transmission,” a letter shared with parents said.
Meanwhile, in Hamilton, Ontario, educators and their unions are involved in what they say is a lot of academics who don’t wear masks in local public schools.
Jeff Sorensen, president of Hamilton-Wentworth Elementary Teachers’ Local, told CBC News that court cases came from school staff, and a school reported that 25% of students were not dressed in masks.
Families may reject mandatory masking in Hamilton schools if their children have fitness disorders that would save them from a mask or mask or if they have difficulty breathing, but do not want to provide evidence.
“It’s alarming, ” said Sorensen.
Internationally, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that final return schools would be a “last resort” and would only apply to places where transmission grades are high.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the importance of keeping schools open, if possible, and warned that the younger out of school there are, the less likely they are to return to many places.
He said “distance learning” should be done whenever possible.
OBSERVE Students ask: What do we do with the mask at recess?
In Canada, the transition to virtual school has been smooth, with disorders such as parents feeling abandoned, deferrals, evolving enrollment lists, and technical disorders.
“I have no religion in the fact that [schools are] organized in Array . . . My feeling is that they don’t have a plan, they’re not prepared,” said Ashley St John, a Toronto mother with five children. 2 months to 12 years.
Calgary’s parents also point to the lack of key data and key points about the Calgary Board of Education’s Hub Online Learning Program, which was scheduled to begin monday.
“We simply don’t have data on when we want to be at home and in front of our computers so we can connect with their teachers,” said Tamara Rose, who works full-time at home due to autoimmune diseases.
In Quebec, the wife of Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Fran’ois Blanchet said she walked away after positive for COVID-19.
In a tweet, Nancy Deziel said she took the test on Monday after wasting her sense of smell.
Deziel said she and her relatives will be isolated until next Tuesday. She continues to paint remotely as a scientist and councillor in Shawinigan, Quebec.
Blanchet himself, along with the bloc Québécois caucus, has already walked away as a precaution after a member of his staff tested positive on Monday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau tested COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, but recovered.
The UN leader said the COVID-19 pandemic remains “uncontrollable” as the world approaches “the darkest milestone: a million lives lost to the virus. “
General Secretary Antonio Guterres said Wednesday at a press convention that coronavirus “is the number one global security risk in our world today,” raising a crisis that “looks like any of our lives. “
He said that is why he called for a ceasefire of all armed conflicts on 23 March to combat the pandemic.
He pressed that a vaccine “will have to be thought of as a global public good, because COVID-19 does not respect borders,” and also said that a vaccine will have to be “affordable and available to all – the vaccine of a people. “”.
The official number of coronavirus death in Spain has exceeded 30,000, while the total number of cases exceeds 600,000, Spain being the first European country to exceed this threshold.
The Ministry of Health added a total of 9,400 new infections shown and 156 deaths.
The country is experiencing one of the steepest spillovers in Europe, with new cases expanding since mid-July.
With 1,273 patients in the ICU, Spain has as many beds committed to treating severe COVID-19 patients as France, the UK, Germany and Italy together. .
Amid the anger at a bottleneck in the UK’s squeaky coronavirus testing system, the government promised Wednesday to do whatever it takes to develop laboratory capacity, leaving others across the country with no way to get a COVID-19 test.
In an attempt to reduce one of the rates of coronavirus deaths in the West, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised in May to create a “first class” formula to control and insinuate others exposed to the virus.
But repeated attempts through Reuters’ hounds to download COVID-19 checks failed, while at an appointment check-up center in Southend-on-Sea, in the east of England, many others were covered for a check, some from 5 a. m. Gmt.
“The one in the labs has been a problem. We’re on our way,” Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told Sky News.
OBSERVING The pneumologist describes the “alarming” wait for the COVID-19 test:
The WHO Regional Director for Latin America warns that it will reopen too soon.
During a virtual briefing, Carissa Etienne said that coronavirus cases in Colombia’s border domain with Venezuela increased tenfold in the last two weeks and mortality rates were emerging in some parts of Mexico, with trends in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Bolivia and some regions. . Argentina.
“We want to be transparent in the sense that too early openness gives this virus more area to spread and puts our populations at greater risk. Look no further than Europe,” he said.
With associated press, Canadian Press and Reuters
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