The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
5 p.m. Ontario’s regional fitness sets report 147 most reported or likely cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, according to Star’s most recent count.
As has been the case in recent days, maximum new cases have been reported in the province in the GTA and Ottawa.
Toronto, with 33 new infections, Peel Region with 27 cases, Ottawa with 22 and York Region, 14, all reported in double digits on Thursday.
Windsor-Essex also reported 12 cases, above the recent trend in this region.
The average seven-day case reports in Ontario have increased in recent days. On Thursday, it rose to an average of 117 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.
No new fatal cases were reported on Thursday; a past death was removed from the count at Peel, where the region reported a total of 326 fatal cases.
The province has now recorded a total of 43,943 cases shown or likely of COVID-19, 2,839 deaths.
The vast majority of COVID-19 patients in the province have recovered since then. The province has a list of just over 1,000 active cases of the disease, this figure is generally higher in recent days.
The Star count includes some patients reported as “maximum probability” cases of COVID-19. This means they have symptoms and contacts or backgrounds that mean they are most likely inflamed with the disease, but have not yet won a positive lab test.
The province warns that its separate data, published daily at 10:30 a.m., may be incomplete or replaced due to delays in the reporting system. In case of discrepancy, “data provided through (health units) should be considered as the updated maximums”.
16:04 There are 126,672 cases shown of COVID-19 in Canada, according to The Canadian Press, 9,099 deaths (and 112,644 have been resolved).
This is broken down as follows (NOTE: The Star does its own count for Ontario; see this file):
Quebec: 62056 shown (including 5750 deaths, 55008 resolved)
Ontario: 41813 shown (including 2803 deaths, 37940 resolved)
Alberta: 13210 shown (including 235 deaths, 11799 resolved)
British Columbia: 5304 shown (including 203 deaths, 4199 resolved)
Saskatchewan: 1609 shown (including 24 deaths, 1527 resolved)
Nova Scotia: 1081 shown (including deaths, 1011 resolved)
Manitoba: 1064 shown (including 14 deaths, 643 resolved)
Newfoundland and Labrador: 268 shown (including 3 deaths, 265 resolved)
New Brunswick: shown (including two deaths, 178 resolved)
Prince Edward Island: shown (41 resolved)
Yukon: 15 confirmed, all of which have been resolved
Repatriated Canadians account for 13 confirmed cases, all of which have been resolved
Northwest Territories: Confirmed, all of which have been resolved
Nunavut reports the cases shown.
4:01 p.m. The Supreme Court of Canada will resume one-month face-to-face hearings, The Canadian Press reports.
The fall consultation will begin on September 22, ahead of schedule, so the court can hear the delayed cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic before continuing with its original program, CP reports.
Physical estrangement measures will be implemented in the courtroom, and lawyers who are unable to come to Ottawa will participate by videoconference.
The court has long welcomed the generation through transmission procedures on its website.
But this spring, he was immersed in the world of virtual video audiences to move the inner workings of justice to closure.
The Supreme Court ruled that the suspension of pandemic time limits for civil court proceedings, such as bankruptcy or divorce cases, will expire on September 13.
2:50 p.m.: Two parents filed a court order requiring B.C. the government is implementing stricter protection measures for young people from the dangers of COVID-19 before schools reopen.
The Supreme Court, on behalf of Bernard Trest of White Rock and Gary Shuster of Vancouver, appoints the Ministers of Health and Education as defendants in British Columbia.
He alleges that they interfered with the suppression of the virus by opening schools in a way that ignores evidence that other people with underlying physical fitness disorders would likely be at risk of contracting a serious illness.
None of the allegations in the application have been proven in court and departments have not yet filed a legal reaction or responded to a request for comment.
The application indicates that Trest has asthma and that his 10-year-old suffers from asthma than when he has a respiratory infection.
He says Shuster, who has two school-age daughters, was born with a genetic condition that causes muscle pain that can be caused by fever and a viral infection.
He argues that the back-to-school plan endangers the lives of academics, teachers, and Giant’s network by falsely assuming that learning teams of 60 to 120 academics are so-called bubbles, where physical distance is not needed.
The lawsuit alleges that the province is conducting a “scientific experiment in which academics and teachers are guinea pigs” by refusing to put in place stricter preventive measures, such as physical distance between academics from the same learning group, stricter regulations on masks and reduced classes.
Kailin Che, the applicants’ lawyer, said the application for a court order had been filed in Chilliwack for delays. This indicates that Trest and Shuster will appear before a trial on September 14.
2:45 p.m.: The federal government is criticized for what critics say has been an obstacle to securing first nations school investment amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Wednesday, Ottawa $2 billion in back-to-school investment for provinces and territories, and $112 million for First Nations.
The announcement came after the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, representing 49 First Nations in Ontario, issued a series of public statements accusing the nation of delaying the issue.
Last week, NAN said the government rejected its $33 million investment request to bring its nearly 9,000 students back to school safely by offering them non-public protective devices and sufficiently good disinfection products.
12:47 p.m.: A report by Statistics Canada suggests that more than one part of Canadians with disabilities who participated in a participatory survey are suffering to reach the end of the month due to the monetary effect of the COVID-19 crisis.
The results, published Thursday, were collected from approximately 13,000 Canadians with long-term illnesses or disabilities who voluntarily completed an online questionnaire between June 3 and July 23. Unlike Statistics Canada’s peak studies, the survey was not taken at random and is not statistically representative of the Canadian population.
Responses mean that 61% of participants aged 15 to 64 reported that the pandemic had a primary or moderate effect on their ability to meet at least one monetary legal responsibility or an essential need.
44% of respondents expressed fear of grocery payments, while 40% were involved in the non-public protective equipment position.
12:35 p.m.: The Toronto District School Board says elementary school students may or may not participate in the in-person categories at 3 times of the school year.
TDSB says parents can move students on October 13, November 23, and February 16, 2021.
They will need to submit an application to move out approximately two weeks prior to the date.
The Board says it is not imaginable to replace without delay due to the effect this would have on staff, physical distance and area allocation.
The resolution comes a day after the province brought new rules to school forums to save it and manage COVID-19 outbreaks.
12:35 p.m.: The Saskatchewan government forecasts a decrease in the deficit originally planned in its June budget and an economic uptick to pre-pandemic grades in 2022.
The Finance Department’s first quarter update forecasts $2.1 billion in ink, up from $2.4 billion earlier this summer.
The province expects deficits over the 3 years before extracting a surplus of $125 million in 2024-25.
The outlook for the year indicates that revenue is expected to accrue by nearly $400 million, mainly due to federal investment for provinces to restart their economies after COVID-19.
Spending is also expected to be higher than at the time of the budget due to spending on fitness, municipalities and the tourism industry.
Finance officials say the overall fiscal landscape has progressed, as many corporations continue to reopen and oil hovers around $40.
“The path to balanced budgets defined in this report is based on the assumption that public conditioning efforts around the world are advancing at existing speed and that they manage to constrain the economic have an effect on the long-term resurgences of COVID-19, and that the economy is returning to its pre-crisis point in 2022” the report says.
12:15 p.m. (update): The number of Ontario residents fighting COVID-19 has reached its point in 3 weeks and hospitalizations are increasing, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Health.
With 118 other cases of viruses reported on Thursday, 34% more than the previous 88, the province has 1,070 actively inflamed citizens, the number since August 7 and well above the recent low of 891 at the beginning of the month. The other 48 people hospitalized are from 12 August.
Cases remain concentrated in Toronto with 36 new infections, 19 in Peel and Ottawa with 22, while Windsor-Essex rose to 12 and Durham had 10. In the Windsor area, for example, officials reported that seven of the new cases were close contacts who tested positive, two were agricultural and 3 were still under investigation.
Star Rob Ferguson has history.
11:25 a.m.: Quebec reports 111 new cases of COVID-19 and 3 more deaths attributed to the new coronavirus.
The health government said one death occurred in the last 24 hours, while two more occurred before August 20.
The province has now reported a total of 62,056 cases of COVID-19 and 5,750 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Authorities say hospitalizations have risen to five since Wednesday, to a total of 115. Of these, 15 patients are in resuscitation, an increase of 3 since the previous day.
The province says it made 16,020 COVID-19 on Tuesday, the last day of which it is known.
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 that,” 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 squad 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 more 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 cities outdoors to Toronto 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 qualifier in this month’s Champions League or Europa League that will 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 Canada’s suffering 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 any other for academics from GTA’s 10 public and Catholic school boards, as well as across the province.
With the school year about to begin, we took a look at the plans of the 10 GTA boards to make schools safe for kids, from cleaning to way-finding and everything else 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 the 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 COVID’s pandemic hit Victoria that we could 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 from the Seoul metropolitan area, home to 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 that he said 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 American back-to-school saga 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 the government of Francois Legault to call for social estrangement in classrooms, use masks for all academics and force the detection of COVID-19 symptoms in children.
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, stating 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 documents related to the interventions of Trudeau, 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 “maximum probability” cases of COVID-19, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or background that imply that they are most likely inflamed with the disease but have not yet gained 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 at the time of a discrepancy, “knowledge reported through (health units) will be considered as the maximum updated”.
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