10:20 a.m.: Ontaro 118 new cases
6:26 a.m.: India recorded its one-day increase
6:24 a.m.: Students from Quebec, Europe return to school
The latest news about coronavirus from Canada and around the world on Thursday. This record will be up to date on the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
11:20 a.m. (update): There was a combination of anxiety and normal enthusiasm for returning to school on Thursday morning when tens of thousands of young people in Montreal rule returned to school for the first time since the emergence of COVID-19.
A long line of parents and academics trained outdoors at Philippe-Labarre Elementary School in the east of the city, and many parents expressed mixed emotions about returning to school.
“I think we’re all a little afraid of what’s unknown, but I’m afraid of him,” said Cora Bridgeo, who has kids in grades first and third grades.
“I have confidence in the government. I have confidence in our system, they have put many measures in place.
11:00 a.m.: Canadians are more likely than citizens of many countries to feel that the global pandemic has united them, according to a survey.
Published Thursday, the survey surveyed 14276 adults in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and South Korea between 10 June and 3 August.
Overall, 46 percent of respondents told the Washington-based Pew Research Center that they felt more unity now than before the coronavirus outbreak, while 48 percent believe the divisions had expanded.
Nicholas Keung of The Star has the story.
10:20 a.m. (update): Ontario reports 118 new cases of COVID-19 and a new coronavirus-related death.
The total number is now 41,813, of which 2,803 deaths and 37,940 are reported as resolved.
There were instances recently marked as resolved in today’s report.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 28 of Ontario’s 34 fitness regions report or fewer new cases.
He said 18 of them had reported new cases.
The province was able to perform 28,625 tests the day before.
8.45 a.m. French midfielder Paul Pogba tested positive for COVID-19 and ruled outside the national team, coach Didier Deschamps said Thursday.
“I had to make a replacement at the last minute because Paul Pogba was supposed to be a component of the team,” Deschamps said. “Unfortunately for him, he took a check that was positive this morning.”
The position of the Manchester United midfielder in the team will be taken through the 17-year-old Rennes midfielder Eduardo Camavinga, striker of the next league of nations qualifiers against Sweden and Croatia.
8:41 a.m.: Just over a million Americans deployed for unemployment last week, a sign that the coronavirus epidemic continues to threaten U.S. jobs even as the housing market, auto sales, and other segments of the economy recover from a spring drop.
The number of people receiving unemployment aid last week fell to 98,000 from 1.1 million last week. The number of initial programmes has exceeded one million weeks maximum since the end of March. Before the coronavirus pandemic, they had never exceeded 700,000 in a week.
More than 14.5 million other people get classic unemployment benefits, compared to 1.7 million a year ago, a sign that many American families have unemployment checks to stay afloat.
8:22 am: Born of the preference to be informed about a new city before packing and departing, and the mobility of running from the COVID-19 home, Toronto’s new ninety minutes online page maps 55 toronto outdoor cities with everything you may need to know about them.
The site is the concept of Audra Williams and his partner, Haritha Gnanaratna. The couple make day trips to small towns in Southern Ontario and fantasize: a new life, in a new city, in an affordable home.
Read Star’s full Jenna Moon story
7.48 a Europa League match in Israel on Thursday was postponed as football players who visited Bosnia and Herzegovina tested positive for COVID-19.
This is the fifth Champions League or Europa League qualifier this month to be postponed at least once due to virus cases. They all involve inflamed players in Eastern European teams.
Maccabi Haifa and Eljeznicar issued statements Thursday that their attack had been postponed through the Israeli Ministry of Health.
The Bosnian club said five of its players tested positive for coronavirus in wednesday’s pre-match tests, which are mandatory for UEFA matches by the pandemic.
7:24 a.m. Italy, Spain and France saw the number of new cases of additional coronavirus on Wednesday as epidemics among returning tourists and revelers continue to grow.
Despite the bleak numbers, Italy joined France and Spain to reject the option of reintroducing the national blockade that crushed the economy. Health Minister Roberto Speranza pulled the lead in an interview Wednesday.
“I dismiss the option of a blockade for our country now,” the minister said. “We have few instances and the scenario is control, with a tension in the hospitals that is very low, minimal.”
Italy, the European epicentre of origin of the pandemic, recorded 1367 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the figure since 12 May. Array Spain reported 3,594 infections, near the maximum 4 months of 3,715 recorded earlier this month.
The Spanish government has announced that it is in a position to make 2,000 infantrymen necessary to seek contacts at the request of the regional authorities, who oversee the aptitude policy. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Tuesday that some other lockdown is not on the table. Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron ruled another general blockade, saying that targeted local containment could simply be implemented.
7 a.m.: The National Arts Center works with the theater across Canada to bring the performing arts to the public square.
The Big Acts of Theatre initiative, announced Thursday, will see large-scale works in 11 communities from coast to coast as the COVID-19 pandemic closes theaters.
Jillian Keiley, artistic director of the NAC English Theatre, hopes the assignment will help the suffering Canadian theater sector while attracting an entirely new audience.
“We have a chance to succeed in an audience that doesn’t even enter a theater,” Keiley said in a recent phone interview.
“Maybe that’s part of how other people might think about theater from now on.”
Keiley teamed up with Vancouver director Sherry Yoon to locate corporations that would face the artistic challenge of presenting an exhibition that could address the herbal elements and limitations of COVID-19.
The effects exceeded Keiley’s expectations.
Barrie’s will be invited to a wedding birthday party in the presence of well-dressed visitors with inflatable plastic orbs in Talk Is Free Theatre’s “Something Bubbled, Something Blue” in an agreement with Outside the March.
6:37 am: Doctors do not perceive why some COVID-19 patients are not recovering, and as the first wave of others living with the persistent effects of the new virus, they may have some of the keys to getting to the bottom. of some of its mysteries. But many feel ignored through the medical establishment, do not count in official counts and fall through the cracks, turning instead to online communities to collect their own recoveries.
International demand is higher for special post-COVID centers, which have already been established in New York and Royaume-Uni.Au Canada, a primary study that examines is tracking and attaching survivors to survivors.
Read the full star’s May Warren story here.
6:36 a.m.: No lockers, assemblies or agendas allowed. Closed libraries and cafés.
The return to school this fall will be like any other for academics from the 10 public and Catholic school forums in the GTA, as well as throughout the province.
With the school year about to begin, we review the plans of the 10 school forums in the Toronto metropolitan area to do schools for children, from cleaning to orientation and everything in between.
See Star’s interactive table here.
6:33 a.m.: The United Nations Children’s Agency says at least a third of young people were unable to learn remotely when the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, creating a “global educational emergency.”
At the height of the pandemic shutdowns, nearly 1.5 billion young people were affected by school closures, UNICEF said.
“For at least 463 million young people whose schools closed due to COVID-19, distance learning existed,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
“The huge number of young people whose education has been absolutely disrupted for months is a global school emergency,” he said in a statement. “The effect on can be felt in economies and societies over the coming decades.”
6:27 a.m.: Victoria, Australia’s hot spot, recorded its third deadliest day of the pandemic and the lowest number of new infections in more than 8 weeks. The 23 killed followed 24 deaths on Wednesday.
The Victoria Department of Health said 22 of the recent maximum deaths were similar to aged care. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 8% of nursing homes in Australia had citizens or were inflamed with the virus. But he said the effects on the retirement homes of four seniors in Melbourne were “unacceptable.”
All four were “severely affected,” he said. “My concern when the COVID pandemic hit Victoria is that we may have noticed many more. The 113 new cases reported thursday were the lowest number since July 5.
6:27 a.m.: North Korea told the World Health Organization that it had screened 2767 other people for coronavirus until August 20 and had all tested negative.
In an email to The Associated Press, Edwin Salvador, WHO’s representative in North Korea, said the country tracks 1,004 quarantined citizens.
Edwin Salvador said North Korea had told WHO that it had released another 29,961 40-year-olds, adding up to 382 foreigners. The North has not yet shown a case of unmarried COVID-19, but foreigners doubt its virus-free claim.
6:26 a.m.: India recorded its largest buildup in a day with 75,760 new cases of coronavirus as it intensifies testing, bringing the country’s overall virus to more than 3.3 million.
The Ministry of Health reported 1,023 deaths in more than 24 hours on Thursday, bringing the total number of deaths to 60,472. India has recorded more than 60,000 new infections according to the day in the last two weeks.
With more than 800,000 day tests, India has higher tests of millions to more than 27,000, the ministry said.
6:25 a.m.: South Korea has reported 441 new cases of coronavirus, its total from one day in months, which makes blocking restrictions inevitable as transmissions are out of control.
The country has added nearly 4,000 infections to its workload while reporting daily three-digit jumps over the more than 14 days, leading fitness experts to warn hospitals are at risk of losing capacity.
The 441 cases reported on Thursday were the largest daily buildup since the 483 reported on March 7. South Korea’s disease and prevention centers said 315 of these new cases came here from the Seoul metropolitan area, home to some of the country’s 51 million residents. . Fitness staff have struggled to track infections from a variety of sources, adding churches, restaurants, schools and staff.
The Seoul National Assembly closed and more than a dozen lawmakers from the ruling party were forced to isolate themselves thursday after a positive check through a journalist covering an assembly of leaders of the ruling party.
6:25 a.m.: The Government of Saskatchewan will provide its first update on the duration of a budget deficit that it believes is a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is also the last time citizens will see books before the electorate passes to the polls in October’s general election.
Finance Minister Donna Harpauer will today provide the effects for the first quarter of fiscal year 2020-2021, adding the number of updated deficits.
Prime Minister Scott Moe’s government presented a provincial budget in June that projected a $2.4 billion deficit, which said it was the result of economic closures due to the fitness crisis.
6:24 am: With viruses or viruses, the European government is determined to return young people to the classroom, reduce the learning gap between those who have and those who do not have to dig the confinement, and return their parents to work.
Faced with a build-up of virus cases, the Authorities of France, the United Kingdom, Spain impose regulations on masks, rent more teachers and build new offices en masse.
While the back-to-school saga in the United States has been politicized and chaotic, with a mix of rapidly moving regulations and negative reactions opposed to US President Donald Trump’s insistence on reopening, European governments have faced fewer protests.
And even though the virus has invaded study rooms in recent days from Berlin to Seoul, and some teachers and parents warn that their schools are unprepared, European leaders on the left, right and political center are sending an unusually coherent message: even in a pandemic, young people are better off in the classroom.
6:23 a.m.: Albertans want to take a look at the biggest deficit in the province’s history when the government publishes its fiscal update today.
Alberta Prime Minister Jason Kenney warned that the deficit in the first quarter of the fiscal year will be “well above $20 billion” and will not do so soon.
He says the province has suffered a “double blow”: a general collapse in energy costs that has “crushed” the oil and fuel industry and a global recession through the COVID-19 pandemic.
6:22 a.m.: Thousands of Quebec schoolchildren return to elegance today, testing the provincial government’s debatable back-to-school plan.
As Montreal’s French-language schools open their doors, young people may be expecting fewer hugs, but hand-washing masses, masks and school yards cut with duct tape to mix even more.
Each room full of children will be kept in a separate bubble and a mask will be required in the hallways and in the usual spaces for fifth graders onwards.
The passing government has been criticized through teams that say the plan is not approved enough and does not include a distance education option for parents who prefer to stay at home with their children.
More than 150 doctors and scientists also published an open letter this week urging François Legault’s government to require social distancing within classrooms, mask-wearing for all students, and to oblige schools to screen children for symptoms of COVID-19.
6:11 a.m.: Federal conservatives are asking a talking company through which WE Charity has paid thousands of dollars to members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s family circle to hand over all the documents on the agreements.
The request is contained in a letter from conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett to Speakers’ Spotlight on Thursday, which states that the firm first commissioned through the House of Commons ethics committee to produce the documents last month.
The original deadline was 29 July for all archives similar to trudeau’s interventions, his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, his mother Margaret Trudeau and his brother Alexandre Trudeau on WE occasions dating back to October 2008.
The firm requested an extension and the committee agreed to a new date on 19 August. Trudeau extended Parliament a day before the new deadline, ending the committee’s ongoing investigations into the WE dispute.
Parliament is expected to return on 23 September with a new speech from the throne.
In his letter, Barrett stated that the committee had accepted the request for a “bona faith” extension and that the resolution to extend Parliament “an attack on our democracy and the duty of the ethics committee to Canadians to seek facts and justice.”
However, despite the extension, Barrett stated that there is nothing to prevent the company from “doing the right thing” and delivering the documents.
Wednesday five p.m.: From five p.m. On Wednesday, Ontario’s regional health offices report that 119 cases showed or likely COVID-19 in the more than 24 hours, according to Star’s most recent count.
As has been the case in recent days, the vast majority of new cases in the province have been reported in the Toronto and Ottawa metropolitan area. Of the 34 fitness units in Ontario, Toronto, with 33 new infections, Peel Region, with 29, and Ottawa, with 16, in double digits on Wednesday.
The three sets also reported more than 10 cases on Tuesday.
The average seven-day case reports in Ontario have increased in recent days. On Wednesday, it climbed to an average of 110 instances consistent with the day during the following week.
Even with recent increases, the infection rate remains well below the worst of the pandemic; Ontario recorded the same average peak in mid-April of nearly six hundred instances consistent with the day.
Three fatal cases were reported on Wednesday, two at Peel and one in Toronto.
The province has now recorded a total of 43,796 cases shown or likely of COVID-19, 2,840 deaths.
The vast majority of COVID-19 patients in the province have since recovered; the province lists more than 1,000 active cases of the disease.
The Star count includes some patients reported as CASES of COVID-19 with “maximum probability,” meaning they have symptoms and contacts or background that imply that the maximum probability has the disease and have not yet gained a positive laboratory test.
The province warns that its separate data, which are published daily at 10:30 a.m., may be incomplete or replaced due to delays in the reporting system, stating that in case of discrepancy, “data reported through (health units) should be considered as the maximum updated”.
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