Friday, the latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world. This record will be updated on the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
12:58 P. M. An organization representing entertainment screen operators is asking for government support, the COVID-19 pandemic has struck its industry hard.
The Canadian Association of Amusement Operators says its members have lost all planned revenue for the year, as many annual fairs and carnivals have been cancelled.
The organization says operators still have to deal with expenses such as insurance, hiring and even if they can’t organize their events.
He says fairs will offer a cultural and economic price to communities, noting that individual entertainment operators can employ between seven and a hundred employees.
The organization warns that without support, such occasions may not be to return in the future.
He’s asking for the opinion of the federal and provincial governments.
12:48 p. m. , federal conservatives were denied their request to have the House of Commons this weekend to debate the new COVID-19 assistance law.
Leader of the opposition in the Gerard Deltell House the previous Friday that the provisions of the invoice require detailed and urgent consideration.
Bill C-2 is scheduled for discussion on Monday and Tuesday.
Deltell proposed that every Sunday be faithful to his study, in what is called a Committee of the Plenary.
This format gives Members the opportunity to question the government about the most restrictive delays that characterize normal debate.
But the Conservative movement in the House of Commons got the unanimous consent it needed to pass on Friday.
(Updated) 12:16 p. m. Ontario closes bars and restaurants earlier and closes all strip clubs in an effort to curb emerging COVID-19 rates in the province.
The government says bars and restaurants will have to close at midnight, for takeaways and deliveries, and will have to avoid serving alcohol at 11 p. m.
The province orders the closure of all strip clubs.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said stricter regulations will restrict the possibility of exposure in places where the threat of transmission is greatest.
The measure comes after the province replaced social meeting regulations last week, reducing the number of other people allowed sometimes to 25 and indoor occasions to 10.
On Friday, Ontario reported 409 new cases of COVID-19 and a new death from the virus.
The province reported that it processed 41,865 tests last day, with 65,227 under investigation.
12:05 p. m. The federal has signed an agreement with AstraZeneca to discharge up to 20 million doses of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
At the same time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is spending $440 million to subscribe to the global COVID-19 vaccine access mechanism, known as COVAX, as well as the COVAX market fund to help less-rich countries buy access to vaccines.
Canada’s commitment to COVAX is also divided into two, with $220 million to secure an additional 15 million doses of vaccines for Canadians and $220 million for low- and middle-income countries to purchase doses.
The agreement with AstraZeneca is the sixth such pact with vaccine brands for Canada.
Read more about Alex Boyd of The Star: “We’ll Have to Eliminate the Virus Everywhere”: Canada Will Inject $440 Million in a Global Vaccine Sharing Effort
12:00 p. m. Health in New Brunswick today reports a new case of COVID-19.
The new case is between 30 and 39 years old in the Bathurst area.
According to public health, the case is similar to the outside of the Atlantic bubble and the individual is ingsed.
The number of cases shown in the province is now two hundred, while another 191 people have recovered and there are seven active cases.
11:34 a. m. Federal conservatives say they need the House of Commons this weekend to discuss the new COVID-19 aid bill.
Leader of the opposition in the Gerard Deltell Chamber the provisions of the invoice require detailed and urgent consideration.
The previous law on COVID-19 was temporarily passed with the consent of all parties, but at that time Parliament was not seated normally.
That’s the case now, and Deltell suggests testing the new bill at legislative speed will take too long.
Among other things, Bill C-2 would create a new benefit formula for those who lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; The existing emergency reaction service is expected to end on Saturday.
He didn’t say whether his party really did with those measures or not, but only conservative MPs need to make sure they’re examined to make sure they’re best suited to Canadians.
11:30 A Queen’s University student living in tested positive for COVID-19.
Kingston University, Ontario, says it isolates itself.
The individual’s close contacts will be contacted through public fitness as the investigation progresses.
At 11:10 a. m. , Quebec recorded 637 new COVID-19s, bringing the total number of in the province to 70,307, the provincial ministry of fitness announced Friday.
Although there have been no COVID-19 deaths in more than 24 hours, it is now believed that 4 deaths between 13 and 23 September are due to disease, bringing the total number of deaths in Quebec to 5814.
11:03 a. m. The total number of active instances of Ontario-funded COVID-19 is more than 238.
In its most recent knowledge published Friday morning, the province reported another 2 nine school-related cases: 10 more academics were inflamed for a total of 110; 10 more for a total of 50 and nine more who were not known for a total of 78.
There are 198 with an active track record, which, according to the province, accounts for 4. 1% of the 4,828 publicly funded
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11:03 a. m. Some Ontario pharmacies began providing COVID-19 testing on Friday as the province attempts to ease the burden on busy evaluation centers.
However, appointment checks can only be requested through other asymptomatic people, and knowing who qualifies and how they can take the check is already confusing.
A woman alerted to a imaginable exposure through the COVID Alert app covered by a check before opening a Shoppers Drug Mart at 8 a. m. in downtown Toronto, but was told he was not eligible.
Laura Smith said she also didn’t realize that pharmacy tests were done by appointment alone and that she had trouble locating data after receiving the alert on Thursday night.
“I didn’t see where to plan, so I came,” said Smith, who said it the first time he tried to get tested.
“Now I know,” he says, shrugging and adds that he’s making plans to move to an evaluation center to wait in line.
Pharmacy tests, which can be performed at up to 60 locations in Ontario, should be done to some asymptomatic people, such as family members in long-term care homes, close contacts of a case, or high-risk workers.
10:43 a. m. At the end of May, when spring turned into summer, Prime Minister Doug Ford told all Ontarions looking for a COVID-19 check to go through one, even if they had no symptoms. “Just introduce yourself,” he says.
This week, when summer turned into autumn, this offer will be revoked. Ontario will no longer monitor other asymptomatic persons who arrive at the assessment centers and are not exposed to a shown case or outbreak, with some exceptions, the authorities said thursday.
Data from the province’s public fitness firm changes policy, demonstrating that this type of check is incredibly low in value, while generating significant costs. schedule response times that have plagued Ontario, and discover some new cases.
Experts welcomed Thursday’s announcement, calling it a delay.
But they warned that it can be difficult to replace it for the public, especially when Ford announced Wednesday that 60 pharmacies will offer COVID testing, but only for other asymptomatic people. Officials said Thursday that pharmacies will offer evidence to others with exhibits shown and other target groups.
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10:30 a. m. Se expects ontario’s next election to be held in 615 days, progressive Conservatives will officially nominate the party’s 72 deputies as candidates on Saturday, the Star learned.
High-level conservatives, speaking confidentially to discuss internal deliberations, say they will also have standard-bearers in ontario’s other 52 constituencys they don’t have until next March.
But the first priority is to make sure that the incumbents, who are not challenged for their appointments, are in a position to leave.
This has raised the hypothesis in Queen’s Park that Prime Minister Doug Ford could call elections before the vote scheduled for June 2, 2022.
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10:18 a. m. (to be updated) Ontario reports 409 more cases of COVID-19. Locally, there are 204 new cases in Toronto, 66 in Peel, and 40 in Ottawa. 65% of Friday’s cases involve other minors. of 40. More than 41,800 tests were performed.
9:46 Kingston Frontenac Lennox
Health medical officer Dr. Kieran Moore announced in June that public aptitude had asked the province to download more doses of the flu vaccine. He said the region “prepares for the worst” if the application is not accepted.
Influenza causes a 10-15% entry trend in hospitals in the KFL region
By vaccinating more people who oppose influenza, public aptitude hopes to reduce the overall tension it exerts on the fitness care formula and save resources to control COVID-19.
It turns out that the Ontario government is applying the same logic. On Tuesday, the province’s Health Minister Christine Elliot revealed the main points of a reaction plan to an autumn pandemic. The first of the six “pillars” of the plan is competitive influenza vaccination.
“The Ontario government is implementing the largest influenza immunization crusade in Ontario history,” the government announced. “The crusade is a component of the province’s overall plan to prepare the fitness formula for a momentary wave of COVID-19. “
8:44 A week beyond the end of one and the beginning of the other, the Tour de France and the French Open were announced as a double sports entertainment program, with hidden crowds but nonetheless, this would verify President Emmanuel Macron’s arguments that the country can with coronavirus. The virus, however, had other ideas.
While the three-week Tour arrived in Paris last Sunday after making its way through the worsening epidemic in the country without any positive viruses among its 176 runners, the French Open is not so fortunate with its timing. The setting is still scheduled to begin on Sunday. Organizers’ plans to have thousands of viewers every day to cheer on Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and others are greatly reduced as infections build up in France.
Last Sunday, the director of the Guy Forget tour gave the impression of being in a good mood on French television with the director of the exhausted hunting tour, who had tested positive for the race and was not sure he would arrive in Paris. attracted smaller but still giant and enthusiastic crowds, and hoped to welcome 5,000 spectators a day to Roland Garros. Although postponed from their own old spaces in June and July, both occasions made the decision not to cancel each other out, unlike many others, while the virus spread around the world.
“Thanks to the Tour, thanks to tennis, the game is getting better,” Forget said. “We need to revel in wonderful emotions.
“If there are 5,000 viewers, it is bigger than nothing,” he added. “We see the full glass part.
Except now.
On Thursday, hours after the tennis tournament held a socially remote electronic draw, in the absence of players, the French prime minister announced that the new crowd length limits brought in this week in Paris and other cities would also apply to Roland Garros. On Friday, only 1,000 spectators will be allowed each day. Three weeks ago, the tournament still had 11,500 tournaments, divided between its arenas Philippe Chatrier, Suzanne Lenglen and Simonne Mathieu, which were then reduced last week to 5,000 and now to 1,000.
8:24 a. m. The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee agreed to reduce prices by simplifying next year’s Games in 52 areas, adding and events.
The number of workers and stakeholders will be reduced from 10% to 15%, Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori said Friday at a press convention, following a two-day assembly with IIC leaders on how to simplify postponed games. , as well as food and transport, will be reduced.
“Opening ceremonies will be inspiring, but not too festive,” Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said at the same briefing. “We’re starting to replace the details. “
Local sponsors of the Tokyo Games have still extended their contracts, which are expected to expire in December, Muto said. The total amount to be stored through the simplification has yet to be estimated, as has the limit on the number of viewers, he said.
IAO member John Coates, who also joined the briefing through a teleconference, said he did not get involved in the athletes’ qualification procedure because the federations were handling him well.
Originally scheduled for this summer, the occasion was postponed for a year in March due to the coronavirus pandemic that killed nearly one million people worldwide. Organizers had previously said they planned to reduce prices in more than two hundred areas.
On Friday, Tottenham received a leave of absence to qualify for a League Cup match with Chelsea after his attack on Leyton Orient was cancelled due to a coronavirus outbreak on the fourth division team.
Tottenham will now host Chelsea in the fourth circular on Tuesday in a three-game home race in three other competitions over five days: Jose Mourinho will face Newcastle in the Premier League on Sunday and Maccabi Haifa in the Europa League qualifiers on Thursday.
On League 2 Orient Saturday in opposition to Walsall it was also cancelled due to the desire for team members to isolate the team.
The East London club hoped to rearrange the opposite adjustment to Tottenham after it was cancelled hours before Tuesday’s match started. League Cup organizers that he “was not able to fulfill his obligations to finish the game. lose equality.
6:18 a. m. Cyprus is stepping up the coronavirus for football players and finishing the stadium’s smallest locker room after the emergence of giant COVID-19 infection teams on two teams in the first department.
Officials from the Ministry of Health and the Cypriot Football Federation will conduct random coronavirus tests on five other people from each of the 20 groups in all divisions each one week. Another 7,000 tests will be conducted on players from all divisions unless the First Division.
All stadium locker rooms shorter than a specified length will be closed and physical conditioning officials will begin to examine all football stadiums and team facilities for fitness protocols to be followed.
Any player who scores positive for COVID-19 is placed in isolation according to existing protocols. Players who score negative within 24 hours of a shown case will be able to resume education and participate in scheduled matches.
Cypriot clubs Nea Salamina and Ethnikos Achnas have noticed an increase in coronavirus infections.
5:54 a. m. An angry place to eat and bar manifest themselves in Marseille to protest the French government’s order to close all public establishments on Saturday to combat the resurgence of viral infections.
Protesters and local officials in France’s second-largest city also threaten to take legal action in an attempt to block the order through the courts, claiming that virus cases in Marseille have stabilized and that the central government of Paris unfairly elects Marseille for maximum serious viral measures in the country.
The government argues that hospitals in this Mediterranean city are under pressure and that closures are the only way to curb spread and avoid additional closures. The French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is under orders.
The central government also ordered less severe new restrictions for a dozen cities, adding Paris, where infections and hospitalizations are increasing, but the infection rate of 100,000 inhabitants is lower than that of Marseille or Guadeloupe.
On Thursday, France reported more than 16,000 new infections and more than 10% of the country’s large care beds are now occupied by patients with COVID-19. France reported 31,511 virus-related deaths, including those in Europe.
4:00 a. m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will register Friday with Canada’s most sensible public fitness officials for their daily update on the worsening fitness crisis in COVID-19.
Trudeau is expected to make an announcement about his government’s ongoing efforts for Canadians and fight the new potentially fatal coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
But he also deserves to start joining the director of public health, dr. Theresa Tam, and her deputy, Howard Njoo, more during her daily briefings, a sign of the gravity of the COVID-19 wave.
During last spring’s first wave, Trudeau held daily outdoor press meetings at his home, Rideau Cottage, but those slowed down and nevertheless stopped when the pandemic slowed down a little during the summer.
The coronavirus is now back, with a dramatic increase in the number of cases in the 4 largest provinces in recent weeks.
4:00 a. m. Some Ontario pharmacies will begin providing COVID-19 testing on Friday, as the province attempts to ease the burden on busy evaluation centers.
Up to 60 pharmacies will be offering appointment tests only for certain asymptomatic people, such as those with family members in long-term care facilities, close contact of a case, or high-risk workers.
Meanwhile, the government announced that test centers across the province will now focus on examining others with symptoms, exposure to a case, and people involved in outbreak investigations.
Prime Minister Doug Ford had said in the past that anyone looking to take a check can get one at an evaluation center, yet he replaced that message yesterday.
This means that others without symptoms who are only looking for peace of mind that they don’t have the virus won’t be able to access the evidence presented throughout the province.
Ford is also expected to announce part of the province’s fall pandemic preparedness plan on Friday.
At four o’clock on Friday morning, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole said she suggested her MPs be hyper-vigilant amid fears of bringing COVID-19 from Ottawa to their districts.
But that won’t save them from employing the same personal screening clinic as him after being rejected from a public facility in Ottawa that was overcaly. “Well, what I’m going to do is look (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau to withdraw from it to take tests so that other people can do it at home as they can in the G7 countries,” O’Toole said in a telephone interview with The Canadian Press.
O’Toole arrives in his last days in solitary confinement after positive for COVID-19 last week. He first searched for evidence on a public online page last Wednesday, but after several hours of queues, he was rejected.
A call to the public fitness workplace for the MPs directed him to a clinic and he went the next day unans without knowing it was a completely personal facility for MPs, he said.
I had no idea he was going directly to the same kind of personal lab that is used for medical testing through many Canadians.
“Then will there be a special clinic where other people have greater access?No, he says.
9:30 p. m. : British Columbia’s most sensible physician thanks his supporters after revealing that he had been the victim of abuse and death threats similar to his public aptitude prescriptions for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Bonnie Henry says she appreciates all the positive notes and comments she’s earned since she said Tuesday that she was home after receiving abusive letters and calls to staff.
Henry says that COVID-19 has created anxiety and worry and that some other people have sparked anger and frustration.
He reported 148 new deaths of the disease in British Columbia, on Thursday, with two more deaths, for a total of 229 deaths.
Henry also says everyone plans a Safe Thanksgiving by organizing small gatherings that may want to come with online invitations for seniors and others who aren’t part of an established “bubble. “
She says other people who live in spaces where there aren’t many cases, don’t forget that other traveling people can bring COVID-19 with them.
8:50 p. m. : Three other TTC workers tested positive for COVID-19, union president Carlos Santos said Thursday.
A general bodybuilder last worked on September 17 at Harvey Shop, the main tram center.
A visitor service agent last worked on September 15 and a bus operator from arrow road department last worked Wednesday from 10 a. m. until a. m. , Santos said.
A total of 71 ATU Local 113 members conducted COVID-19 testing, he said.
Thirteen TTC workers who are members of ATU Local 113 also tested positive, bringing the total number of TTC instances shown to 84, he added.
Thursday 5:36 p. m. : Ontario’s regional fitness offices report the time of day in a row with COVID-19 expansion slower than in recent days, according to Star’s most recent count.
Starting at five o’clock in the afternoon, on Thursday, fitness teams were still reporting 416 new cases shown or likely, under a trend that has noticed that the rate of new infections has accumulated at an accelerated rate since early August.
The province’s seven-day average for new instances is now 414 new instances consistent with the day, more than double what the exercise sets reported 11 days ago on September 13. Earlier this week, this average had been more than nine days.
The last time Ontario experienced such an immediate exponential expansion before the first peak of the pandemic in the spring. Although Ontario is still well below this peak (about 600 infections consistent with the day, reported last April), the current rate of cases expansion, if maintained, would cause the average rate to eclipse this rate in early October.
On Thursday, total cases were reported throughout the province: Toronto reported 191 new cases, highest since early June; Ottawa reported 82; The York region added 35; Waterloo Region 18; Region 17 of Durham and Region 16 of Halton.
Peel Region reported a small number of 23 new instances, its lowest low in 24 hours this month (the fitness workplace recorded an average of 79 instances consistent with the day in the last seven days).
The province has now recorded a total of 50,810 cases shown or likely of COVID-19, 2,876 deaths.
No new fatalities have been reported in the last 24 hours.
The vast majority of COVID-19 patients in the province have recovered since then, and the recent accumulation of cases has not yet resulted in an equivalent accumulation of hospitalizations or deaths, in part because the recent accumulation has not yet affected vulnerable epidemic spaces, such as long-term care homes, which caused thousands of serious ailments among very vulnerable populations in the spring. Hospitalization and death rates also tend to be delayed for weeks compared to case breaks.
The province has recorded 3,774 active cases of the disease, a number that has been reported in recent weeks.
Star’s count includes some patients reported as cases of “maximum probability” of COVID-19, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or backgrounds that imply they are most likely inflamed with the disease but have not yet won a positive laboratory test.
The province warns that its separate knowledge, disclosed daily at 10:30 am, would possibly be incomplete or replaced due to delays in the reporting system, stating that in case of discrepancy, “knowledge reported through (health units) will be considered as up-to-date. »
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