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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this morning two new deals on the COVID-19 vaccine.
One is with Novavax and the with Johnson
“His recent maximum vaccine trials have had promising results,” Trudeau said at a newsstand in Montreal.”If one of these vaccines passes the test, today’s agreement will ensure that Canadians have the mandatory doses.”
Canada has signed agreements with Pfizer and Moderna.
Trudeau said that, combined, the agreements will give the federal government the ability to order more than 80 million doses when a vaccine is developed, with features for more.
The efficacy of all these candidate vaccines has not yet been demonstrated.Health Canada will need to approve them before they are distributed.
Quebec has registered 140 new coVID-19 instances, bringing the total to 62,492, the provincial announced this morning.
This is the third day in a row of a three-digit increase.
Two new deaths were reported; one occurred in the last 24 hours, between August 24 and 29, and the death toll is now 5,760.
The number of hospitalizations was reduced from 4 to 112.
Of the hospitalized, 18 are in intensive care, two more than the day before.
A overall of 10,679 other folks were tested on 29 August, the newest knowledge for which screening knowledge are available.
The graph below shows the seven-day trend.
From the Canadian press:
A federal spending watchdog says a program to rents for small and medium-sized businesses will charge just under $1 billion this fiscal year.
This morning’s report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer indicates that the ad assistance program will now charge $931 million after it lasts until August.
Updated Spending forecasts from the Parliamentary Budget Office are still on track to provide less assistance than nearly $3 billion in the Liberal budget.
The program provides repayment loans that cover part of the rent of eligible small businesses, and also requires landlords to give up another quarter of what would otherwise be owed to them.
The Canadian Federation of International Business warns that too many small businesses have not yet had access to assistance because they have owners apply for it and set the bar too high for lost income to be eligible.
The agreement asks the government to allow tenants to apply directly.
In the first part of 2020, refugee resettlement fell by 69% since 2019 to just over 10,000, according to UN data.The show resumed in June, but at a much slower pace.
The pandemic hit as attitudes toward immigrants hardened, loosening some other thread in increasingly worn foreign efforts for global solidarity.
Nationalism, concern about infection, economic considerations, and the resistance of the aging electorate to replace it undermine a long-standing postwar consensus that those at risk of persecution, abuse, or violence deserve protection.
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Quebec’s largest English-speaking public board is holding its first day of categories this morning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Eighty-one academics returned from school today after 3 cases of COVID-19 were discovered at two of Quebec City’s top schools, Le Soleil reports.
Novavax Inc. said Monday that it reached a prior agreement with the Canadian government to supply up to 76 million doses of its experimental coronavirus vaccine, which is subject to a vaccine license through Health Canada.
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One of the best schools in Deux-Montagnes says 4 teachers have tested positive, compared to two previously announced.
In an update published on Sunday, the Thousand Islands School Services Center (CSSMI) said that a total of 20 of the Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes are isolated and had been in contact with the Inflamed Array.
Classes will need to resume for a maximum of grade 10 and 11 students at school; The categories were canceled for them on Friday after the first cases were discovered.
“Professors in isolation will teach distance courses, while substitutes will administer face-to-face courses,” said CSSMI.
Quebec, which has the largest number of active COVID-19 instances in Canada, remains one of the country’s most popular prime ministers, according to research published through the Angus Reid Institute.
Quebec had 1,294 active cases, Alberta (1,185) and Ontario (1,181) at the time and third, according to the COVID-19 Situation Awareness Scoreboard.
The pandemic has left Quebec’s student-athletes in a dead end, unaware of whether they will participate in team sports this fall.
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