6 a. m. : St. Michael’s Hospital declares COVID-19 outbreak in emergency department
The latest news about coronavirus from Canada and around the world on Wednesday. This record will be updated on the day. Web links to larger stories if available.
6 a. m. : St. Michael’s Hospital reported an outbreak of COVID-19 in its emergency on October 20.
A on the hospital’s online page reported five active cases among staff similar to the outbreak, with no reported patient cases.
According to the statement, “the state of the epidemic” refers to “two cases of COVID-19 over a 14-day period, in which either case may have been contracted in the hospital”.
The hospital has decided that the threat of patient exposure is low and will affect any patient who has had direct contact with staff who has tested positive.
Read Star’s full Zena Salem story here.
5:45 a. m. : Eighteen fishing teams that flew to New Zealand last week from Moscow tested positive for coronavirus, highlighting the difficulty facing New Zealand in trying to import staff while remaining virtually virus-free.
A total of 235 members of the Russian and Ukrainian team were travelling on the chartered flight through 3 fishing companies. Before leaving Moscow, they had to self-insulate for two weeks and test negative for the virus. All quarantined at a hotel in Christchurch.
5:42 a. m. : The Australian government says it is treating a COVID-19 case in melbourne as a rare reinfection. The coronavirus case reported Tuesday in Victoria’s old hotspot tested positive in July.
Victoria’s Prime Minister Dan Andrews said Wednesday that a panel’s resolution of experts to classify the case as reinfection reflected a “great precaution” than conclusive evidence. Melbourne has been blocked since early July, but restrictions in Australia’s second-largest city are declining this week as the daily number of infections remains low.
Victoria reported three new cases on Wednesday. The state wave peaked with 725 new infections in a day in early August.
5:42 a. m. : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said laxity could lead to a new outbreak of infections, and that India reported 54,044 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 7. 6 million.
The Ministry of Health also reported 717 more deaths Wednesday for a total of 115,914. Deaths and new cases matching the day have been declining in India since last month, however Modi urges others to continue wearing masks and practice social estating to a vaccine. is available.
Health officials have warned of the possibility of the virus spreading during the existing devout festival season, which includes massive meetings in temples and grocery shopping districts.
5:42 a. m. : Philippines on Wednesday lifted the ban on non-essential foreigners through Filipinos, but the immigration workplace said the resolution did not promptly cause a lot of outings for tourism and recreation.
The government has gradually eased travel restrictions on the economy, which entered recession in the quarter after months of blockade and quarantine to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
5:40 a. m. : British government borrowing peaked in the first part of the fiscal year, as tax revenues fell and the government spent billions of pounds on an economy devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Office of National Statistics said Wednesday that the government borrowed a net amount of 36. 1 billion pounds ($47. 1 billion) in September, bringing the total of the first six months of the year to 208. 5 billion pounds, the highest figure since registration began. in 1993.
Tax revenue fell by 11. 6% compared to last year in the six months of September. At the same time, the success of Americans and businesses over the pandemic contributed to daily spending accumulating by 34%.
5:40 a. m. : A day after putting on a mask for the first time in a liturgical service, Pope Francis returned to his old maskless behavior on Wednesday despite the outbreak of coronavirus infections in Europe.
Francis walked away from the mask during his general audience on Wednesday in the Vatican auditorium and did not use it when he greeted a dozen unmasked bishops at the end, shook hands and bent down to chat privately with each of them. .
5:30 am: A new COVID-19 satellite verification site for access by those most in need is exacerbating frustrations in the hard-west corner of Toronto, which has been badly affected, amid a “verification disorder” that has left more than 125 patients on hold – in some cases for more than two weeks – for results.
York South-Weston MP Faisal Hassan, who fought for months to bring the assessment center to Church Street at Humber River Hospital, said delays in testing were a “disaster” in network paintings with disproportionately high COVID rates, where many citizens are on the front lines. The staff can’t paint from home.
“It’s a total failure to run the government here in our community,” Hassan said. “They have been too slow to deal with the COVID crisis in our community. Once again, we’re sloppy. We’re putting more lives at risk. “
Read Rachel Mendleson and Megan Ogilvie’s full story of the star here.
4:00 a. m. : The most recent showed COVID-19 numbers in Canada at 4:00 a. m. EDT on October 21, 2020:
Shown 203,691 in Canada.
-Quebec: 95216 was shown (including 6055 deaths, 80468 resolved)
-Ontario: 65,896 displayed (including 3,053 kills, 56,606 resolved)
-Alberta: 22,996 displayed (including 293 kills, 19,500 resolved)
-British Columbia: 11854 shown (including 254 deaths, 9871 resolved)
-Manitoba: 3491 shown (including deaths, 1703 resolved)
-Saskatchewan: 2439 shown (including 25 deaths, 1987 resolved)
-Nova Scotia: 1097 shown (including deaths, 1026 resolved)
-New Brunswick: 313 shown (including 3 kills, 215 resolved)
-Newfoundland and Labrador: 287 shown (including deaths, 272 resolved)
-Prince Edward Island: shown (60 resolved)
-Yukon: 17 shown (15 resolved)
-Repatriated Canadans: Thirteen submitted (including thirteen resolved)
-Northwest Territories: five shown (five resolved), 3 presumptive
-Nunavut: no cases showed
Total: 203,691 (3 suspected, 203,688 showed 9794 deaths, 171,741 resolved)