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Newest on COVID-19 progress in Canada (still in the east):
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7:34 p. m.
The B. C. The provincial fitness officer urges companies to ensure that they meet the eligibility and protection criteria for COVID-19 workers.
Dr. Bonnie Henry says public fitness groups would provide recommendations if an employee contracts the disease, however, it is up to corporations to allow people in poor physical condition to stay away.
Henry says painters should check daily, track where they paint in one place and who they are with, and meet as much as possible.
BEFORE JC. you have 110 new instances of COVID-19 for a total of 10,066 instances and one more death, or 245 deaths due to illness.
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6:06 p. m.
Alberta reports its highest number of COVID-19 cases, with 364 new infections, most of them 276, in the Edmonton area.
The province’s medical director of health, dr. Deena Hinshaw, has announced 3 voluntary public measures in the Capital Region.
She needs other people to restrict the circle of family gatherings and social events, adding weddings and funerals, to 15 other people.
She says other people wear masks inside work, unless they are alone in booths or offices or separated from others through barriers.
And you need others to restrict your interactions to 3 cohorts: home, school, and a social or sporting group.
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4:52 p. m.
The Northwest Territories say they will require others to wear an internal mask on all terminals.
The measure is scheduled for Tuesday.
The territory says passenger traffic is expanding and that mask will help everyone stay safe from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Transport Canada in April already asks travelers to wear a mask on security and boarding flights.
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4:37 p. m.
Quebec is moving several regions between Montreal and Quebec City to the COVID-19 alert level.
Health Minister Christian Dube said the city of Trois-Riviares, Quebec, as well as several other nearby cities, will move to the pandemic or “red” alert level.
This resolution by which the bars and restaurants of these spaces will be obliged to close from Sunday and that the use of a mask will be mandatory in secondary schools.
Dube said police would establish checkpoints on roads leading to parts of the province, adding parts of the Saguenay region north of Quebec City to discourage non-essential travel.
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4:26 p. m.
New Brunswick will make it mandatory to wear a mask in all public places from Friday, as the province is fighting the increase in COVID-19 infections.
Authorities said Thursday that, in addition to ordering masks, non-essential days that had been legal for citizens of two Quebec border communities are prohibited.
The province reported 3 new infections on Thursday.
Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick’s medical director of health, said the new cases are similar to the outbreak at Notre Dame Manor in Moncton, which is linked to 19 infections.
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3:22 p. m.
A First Nation in northern Saskatchewan is on lockdown due to COVID-19 transmission considerations following a series of devotees in which participants were unmasked.
Peter Ballantyne’s Cree Nation has closed its 3 Southend communities, Sturgeon Landing and a reservation in the city of Prince Albert.
Boss Peter Beatty says all cars on the network will be searched and parties will not be allowed.
The organization also closed its two schools until at least October 19, due to the imaginable exposure of staff to the virus.
The band’s education coordinator, Greg Seib, says schools and school buses are being cleaned and disinfected.
The announcements came after the Saskatchewan Health Authority said it was investigating a community-transmitted COVID-19 outbreak involving the search for contacts of more than a hundred people connected to a series of comprehensive gospel awareness events in Prince Albert from September 14 to sunday last.
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2:08 p. m.
Alberta Health Services reports that two of Edmonton’s hospitals are dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19.
The firm says 8 patients at Misericordia Community Hospital tested positive for the new coronavirus and two fitness patients are also infected.
It indicates that fitness services are therefore isolated by themselves.
This is the time when the hospital has experienced an outbreak: during an eight-week era this summer, another 58 people have become inflamed and 11 of them have died.
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2 p. m.
Nunavut’s director of public health says a COVID-19 outbreak has been contained in a gold mine.
Dr Michael Patterson says there are 10 cases and six suspected cases in Hope Bay Mine, about 125 kilometres southwest of Cambridge Bay.
But he says that the instances will not be counted as those of the territory, because the workers’ home courts have chosen to sign them.
This means that the territory has still recorded a positive case.
Patterson said earlier that there is evidence of transmission at the mine, but now he says no.
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1:59 p. m.
Manitoba reports 67 new instances of COVID-19, 57 in Winnipeg, and the number of active instances continues to increase.
Public Health Director Dr. Brent Roussin advises others to restrict their Thanksgiving dinners this weekend to the circle of family members and not to the percentage of utensils to serve.
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1 p. m.
Dr. Theresa Tam says the moment of the COVID-19 wave looks like a series of regional epidemics in Canada.
Ontario and Quebec account for 80 percent of recent new cases, yet British Columbia and Manitoba get more diagnoses than in the spring.
Tam says New Brunswick is fine, like the rest of Atlantic Canada, it has an outbreak in a long-term care home that it was quick to contain.
An increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals in Ontario and Quebec has raised considerations that they will be subjected to short-term control.
The Canadian Public Health Agency says the country has recorded an average of 2,052 new cases in line with the day in the following week, with 18 deaths in relation to the day and another 673 people in the hospital.
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10:45 a. m.
Ontario reports 797 new COVID-19 cases today, setting a new record.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said there were 265 cases in Toronto, 182 in Ottawa, 134 in the Peel region, and in the York region.
Elliott says that 57% of existing cases involve other people under the age of 40.
The province says there are now 4 new deaths from the virus.
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10:35 a. m.
Canada Post is asking Canadians to start buying food early for Christmas to make sure their gifts are delivered on time.
Crown says it is already experiencing an increase in package delivery activity as consumers turn to online grocery shopping in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He expects the immediate escalation of package deliveries to continue the holiday season.
And he warns that a wave of classic vacation packages has the ability to overwhelm his ability to deliver at the right time.
Canada Post says it is stepping up its operations in demand forecasting, but canadians can rush to send packages to those who enjoy buying food sooner.
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10:15 a. m.
Prime Minister Francois Legault said the province reported 1,078 new cases of COVID-19 and nine new deaths.
Legault told reporters that hospitalizations were higher up to 16.
The prime minister says his government has the right to impose stricter measures on COVID-19 hot spots such as Montreal and Quebec City.
These measures come with the closure of bars, gymnasiums and the prohibition of public meetings.
Legault says the province is looking to develop the ability to seek contacts and is asking others to stay home this long Thanksgiving weekend.
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This Canadian Press report was first published on October 8, 2020.
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