2 p.m. Toronto reports 18 new cases shown, 1 probable case of COVID-19.
10:30 a.m. For the third consecutive day and fifth time in the last week, Ontario is reporting fewer than 100 cases of COVID-19
10 a.m. Canada is signing deals with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and U.S.-based biotech firm Moderna to procure millions of doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccines.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
4:20 p.m.: Ottawa has revealed the main points of a $469 million program to help Canadian fishermen cope with the economic effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan said Wednesday that the fishing and subsidy program, first announced in May, would be open to programmes from 24 August to 21 September.
In total, more than 28,000 nationwide are expected to be eligible for the program, which also covers province-approved inland fishing companies.
3:50 p.m.: About 125,000 people in Quebec between the ages of 18 and 69 have COVID-19, according to a new exam published Wednesday through the Quebec blood collection company, more than 3 times the official number reported by fitness authorities.
But the Hema-Québec indicates that most Quebecers remain vulnerable to infection with the new coronavirus, said the agency’s vice president, Dr Marc Germain.
“The conclusion is obvious, ” said Germain in an interview on Wednesday. “A very small proportion of the population exposed to the virus in the first wave. And that means many other people in the population will probably become infected.”
It also means that Quebec comes from what is called herbal or collective immunity to the virus, said Dr. Gaston De Serres of the Quebec Institute of National Health, who collaborated on the study.
Collective immunity occurs when a sufficient population has a virus and has developed an immune reaction opposite it, preventing them from reinfectioning and transmitting it. “With this data, it shows that collective immunity in Quebec is not present,” De Serres said. I said, “Forget it.”
The Hema-Québec antibody test referred to a pattern of another 7,691 people over the age of 18 to 69 who donated blood between May 25 and July 9. It revealed that 2.23% of donors had been inflamed with COVID-19. The review indicated that the highest infection rates were in Montreal and Laval, with just over 3 consistent with the penny, while in other maximum parts of the province, the rate decreased greatly by 1.29 consistent with the penny.
3:45 p.m.: Quebec reported 155 new coVID-19 instances on Wednesday, bringing the total number of others with proven infections to 60,000. The province also reported two deaths more attributed to the new coronavirus, for a total of 5687.
2:53 p.m. Coronavirus control in the United States is declining even as infections remain the main ones and the death toll rises to more than 1,000 per day, a disturbing trend that officials largely characterize to the discouragement of Americans who have to wait hours for control and days or weeks. to the results.
An analysis through The Associated Press found that the number of tests consistent with the day has fallen from 3.6% in the last two weeks to 750,000, and the number was reduced in 22 states. This includes places like Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Iowa where the constant percentage of positive tests is higher and continues to rise, an indicator that the virus is still spreading unchecked.
In the midst of the crisis, some fitness officials are calling for the advent of another type of verification that would produce effects in minutes and would be reasonable and sufficient enough for millions of Americans to review themselves, but also less accurate.
“There’s a sense of depression that we want to do anything else,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute.
Widespread testing is essential to engage the epidemic as the United States approaches a gigantic five million infections and more than 1 to 7,000 deaths of more than 700,000 worldwide.
2:17 p.m. For Esther Adhiambo, this year was intended to be a year of end and new beginnings. She planned to finish high school, enroll in a university, and locate a task to help her single mother, who runs a small sewing business in The Matiro slum in Nairobi.
By contrast, for Adhiambo and other Kenyan academics, 2020 turns out to be the year it disappeared. Education officials announced in July that they would cancel the school year and force academics to repeat it. They are not expected to return to school until January, the same beginning of the school year in Kenya.
Education says Kenya is the only country that has gone so far as to claim a general wash throughout the school year and order academics to do it again.
2 p.m. There are 18 new instances shown, 1 probable case in Toronto today, says Dr. Eileen de Villa. She says the double digits are “good news.” It is too early to know what accumulation, if any, in cases would possibly be similar to the reopening of Stage 3 that began on Friday, however, says that more activity is expected. It is hoped that not because things are necessarily going wrong, but because the reopening brings us closer and that something is likely to accumulate in some cases, according to fitness experts.
2 p.m. As Ottawa and airlines communicate about tactile search, federal officials are analyzing the amount of data corporations deserve to provide and how knowledge deserves to flow.
Concerns about the airline’s point of detail were in British Columbia, where the provincial fitness officer lamented the lack of movement of federal public servants.
Canada’s Director of Public Health, Dr. Theresa Tam, said Tuesday that knowledge of airlines could advance as a component of efforts to hint at the possible spread of COVID-19.
A federal government official told The Canadian Press that the challenge revolved around data collected for domestic flights, one of the obstacles was success in an agreement that would satisfy all parties involved.
The official wasn’t authorized to speak on the record because efforts are being headed by the Public Health Agency of Canada, which didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
1:52 p.m. Florida reported 5,409 coVID-19 instances on Wednesday, leading the state to more than a million infections.
This makes Florida the post-California time between states where the disease has been diagnosed.
Florida now has 502,739 cases, while California fitness officials reported about 520,000 cases Tuesday.
The number of control effects reported in Florida is less than 61,000 for the third day in a row, probably due to the closure of many control sites due to Tropical Storm Isaias.
A total of 57,272 results were recorded on Tuesday, compared to 88,244 a week earlier on July 28.
1:49 p.m. The number of new coronavirus infections in Spain continues to increase to 1,772 cases on Wednesday.
That was up from 1,178 the previous day. More than 60% of the new cases were detected in the regions of Madrid and Aragon, in the northeast. Two of the country’s 19 autonomous regions didn’t report their numbers.
New cases have risen steadily in Spain since a three-month lockdown ended on June 21. By the end of July, the daily increase surpassed 1,000. That’s prompted some other European countries to demand travellers from Spain go into quarantine upon arrival.
Several parts of the country have imposed new restrictions on movement and impose masks.
Meanwhile, the government of the Canary Islands will become the first region of Spain to cover the expenses of tourists, both local and foreign, who test positive for the coronavirus while on vacation in the archipelago.
Local authorities say an agreement was reached with an insurance company to cover medical expenses, repatriation or extended stays if tourists have to self-quarantine.
Spain has confirmed more than 305,000 cases and nearly 28,500 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
1:49 p.m. The French government is raising another glass to the wine industry.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced an additional 80-million-euro ($95 million) in financial help during a visit to the winemaking town of Sancerre in central France on Wednesday. He’s adding to the aid already given to the industry in May.
He says the help will be the garage of the surplus product and the help of unsold grapes will be distilled into other materials. Winemakers estimate that the coronavirus crisis has led to a deficit of at least 1.5 billion euros due to the closure of bars, restaurants, festive gatherings and tourism.
1:30 p.m. Health officials reported no new deaths similar to COVID-19, however, 146 new instances were tested in British Columbia. A weekend.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry broke down the new case count, which took place over a four day period. From Friday to Saturday, 43 cases were recorded, while Saturday to Sunday saw 29, Sunday to Monday reported 46, and Monday to Tuesday had 28 new COVID-19 cases.
The number this weekend raises the total number in the province to 3,787.
Dr. Henry said the number of instances over the long weekend is not unexpected, as we now see instances of other people exposed to occasions until two weeks ago.
“This is a concern, because the majority are related to what happened prior to this long weekend,” she said. “The source of these cases is varied, and as we’ve talked about many times, this is something that we take very seriously in public health. To track down and trace how everybody, every single case, became infected is important to us.”
Case counts continue to rise across the province, with multiple exposure events continuing to cause an impact. Interior Health is now reporting 377 cases total, 137 of which are linked to the Kelowna exposure events.
In a press sent last week, Interior Health said it had replaced the way it reported cases similar to the “Kelowna cluster.”
“Currently we are seeing more broad community transmission so we are expanding our reporting to focus on any cases that are linked to Kelowna during their exposure or infectious period,” read the press release.
The new report format replaces the total number of instances in Inner Health, but reclassifies many as related to the Kelowna cluster.
1:37 p.m. With the germination of new coronavirus groups abroad, the U.S. cruise industry. It’s extending its suspension of operations until October.
The Cruise Lines International Association, which represents more than 50 companies and 95% of ocean-going cruise capacity, said Wednesday that if conditions in the U.S. change, it would consider allowing short, modified sailings.
A non-navigation order for U.S. waters originally issued through the Centers for Disease Control in March has been extended to September 30. The CLIA extended its suspension twice.
A Norwegian cruise line halted everything and apologized Monday after a coronavirus outbreak aboard an inflamed ship with at least five passengers and 36 team members. The health government fears that the ship has spread the virus to dozens of villages and villages along Norway’s west coast. The hurtigruten cruise line was one of the first to resume sailing in June, offering cruises from Germany to Norway.
Positive coronavirus tests were reported on cruise ships in Italy and Tahiti this week.
The risk of infection aboard a cruise ship is elevated because of the close quarters. Between March and July, there were 2,973 reported cases of COVID-19 or COVID-like illnesses about ships in U.S. waters, according to the CDC. As of July 10, there were still 14,702 crew members aboard 67 ships.
12:54 p.m. New Brunswick reports 4 new COVID-19 instances today.
Prime Minister Blaine Higgs told reporters that the bodies were referring to foreign transients arriving from Mexico.
Higgs says they were known when they arrived in Moncton and are now isolated.
He says they were stationed for Miramichi, New Brunswick.
The new viruses are the first reported in the province in more than two weeks.
New Brunswick had a total of 174 cases shown, another 168 people recovered from the virus and two deaths.
12:13 p.m. Nova Scotia’s progressive Conservatives have launched an estimated $634 million plan into the province’s long-term care sector.
Leader Tim Houston says his party would immediately add 2,500 single-bed rooms to the system, hire 2,000 nurses and continuing care assistants and establish a new option of incremental supportive living funding if it eventually forms government.
Houston says the COVID-19 pandemic has “highlighted” the importance of single rooms for citizens of long-term care services when it comes to controlling infections and slowing the disease in an institution.
Of the 64 deaths in Nova Scotia to date of the pandemic, 53 have occurred at the Northwood Long Term Care Centre in Halifax, an older centre with no single rooms.
Houston says he’s also submitted a proposal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeking federal support for a further 1,000 single-bed rooms.
11:50 a.m. Time and food supplies are running out for two giant pandas at the Calgary Zoo.
Er Shun and Da Mao arrived in Calgary in 2018 after spending five years at the Toronto Zoo and were scheduled to remain in Alberta until 2023.
Calgary Zoo President Clement Lanthier said the facility had spent months looking to succeed over transportation barriers to obtain new bamboo and in May it was more productive for animals to be in China, where its main food source is abundant.
But he says the Zoo hasn’t been able to approve international permits, as the COVID-19 pandemic created changes to import laws and animal quarantine facilities.
Lanthier says continued delay puts animal fitness and welfare at risk.
He says the zoo is only able to source fresh bamboo reliably from British Columbia, and that supply is expected to run out in September.
11:43 a.m. Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus, becoming the first U.S. state to use new pandemic technology created by Apple and Google.
The Covidwise app was available on the tech giants’ app stores Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement from Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.
“We are employing every single imaginable technique to combat this virus and keep Virginians healthy,” Northam said in a statement to AP that encouraged all Virginians to download the app. “The COVIDWISE app is absolutely anonymous, protects privacy and provides you with an additional tool to protect yourself and your community.”
It comes nearly four months after Apple and Google said they were partnering on creating app-building software for public health agencies trying to contain the spread of the pandemic. Canada and a number of European countries have already rolled out apps using the tech companies’ framework.
11:25 a.m. Turkey’s interior ministry announced new measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus after daily confirmed cases peaked back above 1,000.
The Home Office said its teams will highlight the “individual surveillance” of others who have had to be quarantined, i.e. the first seven days of isolation.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted that widespread inspection will take place across Turkey on Thursday. The ministry also stated that touch trackers will be assisted through law enforcement or through magnets in small settlements.
He says he will not settle for any violation of masking and social estrangement on occasions such as weddings or circumcision ceremonies. Meetings after the funeral will be limited.
Companies and transport that comply with the protection will receive a “safe space” logo after 3 inspections.
Latest statistics show nearly 235,000 confirmed infections and 5,765 deaths in Turkey.
11:37 a.m. The mayor of Chicago announced Wednesday that the third largest school district in the United States would not accommodate students in the classroom, after all, and that it would depend on distance education to begin the school year.
The city’s resolve to abandon its plan for academics to take categories in person two days a week, once the fall semester begins on September 8, came amid a strong crackdown through the hard teachers’ union and as school districts across the country struggle to teach young people the coronavirus pandemic.
When Chicago officials announced their hybrid learning plan last month, they said it would likely replace comments based on the family circle and the evolution of coronavirus in the area.
On Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot attributed the plan’s replacement to a recent build-up in shown COVID-19 cases in the city.
11:28 a.m. Quebec has added 155 new instances of COVID-19 today, bringing the total number of other people inflamed to 60,000.
The province has also added two deaths, for a total of 5,687 since the start of the pandemic.
The Department of Health reports two patients minus to the hospital for 167, 19 in intensive care, also relief of two.
11:25 a.m. In South Carolina, hospitals and the state fitness branch say the application for coronavirus testing remains high, even if the number of tests has decreased in the last two weeks.
In some cases, people may be deterred by the long wait times at certain testing sites. Others forego the tests when their health insurance won’t cover them, says Dr. Patrick Cawley, CEO of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Cawley told a state legislative committee Tuesday that insurance companies do not pay for asymptomatic patient testing. It’s one of the biggest barriers to detection in the state, Says Cawley.
Health officials announced 1,168 new cases on Tuesday and 52 showed deaths. The state has reported 93,604 cases shown and 1,774 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
11:25 a.m. Arizona authorities say 517 inmates at Tucson State Prison were screened Tuesday for coronavirus.
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation said nearly a portion of the prisoners housed in the Whetstone unit tested positive for the virus. Cases among inmates in the prison’s Whetstone unit were discovered in an attempt to control the 39,000 state prisoners.
Authorities say 564 correctional facilities were positive for the virus
Before prison officers learned of the cases in the Whetstone unit, the firm reported that 890 other inmates had tested positive and 21 inmates had died statewide.
Arizona has 180,500 proven cases and more than 3,800 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
11:23 a.m. The federal government is moving forward with plans for provinces and territories to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure projects to address the demanding situations posed through COVID-19.
Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna said $3.3 billion of the $33 billion Ottawa has promised in the past to match the budget for provincial and territorial projects will go to pandemic projects.
These projects include renovations to public buildings such as schools and long-term care facilities, physical distance measurements such as new motorcycles and walking trails, and those designed to oppose floods and wildfires.
McKenna says the federal government plans to introduce a faster application procedure for provinces and territories to receive federal funds, with Ottawa paying up to 80% of expenses for approved projects.
The new comes when peak provinces plan to reopen schools next month and seek to protect themselves from new COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes.
While the measure will be successful across provinces and territories, everyone must sign an agreement with the federal government before they can apply for funding.
10:30 a.m. For the third day in a row and the fifth time in the following week, Ontario reports fewer than one hundred instances of COVID-19, with 86 new instances today, an accumulation of 0.2%, Health Minister Christine Elliott reported on Twitter. With 146 other instances resolved, we also continue to see a persistent decrease in the number of active instances in the province. Hospitalizations continue to decline. At the local level, 29 of the province’s 34 public aptitude sets report five or fewer instances, and 22 report that there are no new instances.
10:28 An antibody test conducted through the Quebec blood collection company concluded that approximately 2.23% of adult blood donors in the province had COVID-19.
The seroprevalence test conducted through Hema-Québec and the province’s public fitness institute analyzed the blood of 7,691 people aged between 18 and 69 who donated blood between May 25 and July 9.
Extrapolated to the rest of the population, the test estimated that approximately 124,800 adults have the virus since the beginning of the pandemic.
Quebec reported some 37,000 instances in the 20-69 age organization during the same period.
The test found that the highest infection rates were in Montreal and Laval, with just over 3 consistent with the penny, while in other maximum parts of the province, the rate decreases greatly by 1.29 consistent with the penny.
Authorities will contact donors who had COVID-19 antibodies against their symptoms to estimate how many of them were asymptomatic.
10:11 a.m. A provincial supreme court judge says a civil rights group can participate in a court challenge of Newfoundland and Labrador’s COVID-19 travel ban, but not make arguments about enforcement measures.
Justice Donald Burrage rendered his decision today in St. John’s on the second day of proceedings.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed a claim along with Halifax resident Kim Taylor in May that alleges the restrictions violate the charter and fall outside the province’s jurisdiction.
Burrage gave the agreement the public interest to present legal arguments about the ban itself.
The order of special measures of the Medical Director of Health of the province in May prohibited any permanent citizens and asymptomatic personnel essential to enter the province.
But Burrage denied that the organization could simply challenge the adjustments to the province’s Public Health Protection and Promotion Act, also passed in May, which allows peace officials to stop and send others out of the province and expand their search powers.
A lawyer for the province argued Tuesday that there is no evidence related to the enforcement powers because they have not been applied to anyone, including Taylor.
The association’s lawyer, however, said the measures are unconstitutional on their face.
The province defended the ban to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
10:00 a.m. Canada agrees to symptoms with the Pfizer Pharmacist and the U.S. Modern Biotechnology Corporation to obtain millions of doses of its coVID-19 experimental vaccines.
Procurement Minister Anita Anand is announcing the deals this morning in Toronto, which will see Canada get access to the vaccines if they prove to be both safe and effective.
Both corporations began phase 3 clinical trials of their candidate vaccines during the following week, large-scale testing of how vaccines work.
In early July, Pfizer and Moderna reported effects of smaller trials.
Phase 3 trials check vaccines in another 30,000 people and effects are expected in the fall.
Canada’s Director-General of Public Health, Dr. Theresa Tam, warned Tuesday that she hopes a vaccine will end the pandemic quickly, saying it provides hope and there is still no quick fix for the new coronavirus.
9:47 a.m. Pfizer Canada and BioNTech SE have announced an agreement with the government of Canada to supply their BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV2, subject to clinical success and Health Canada approval.
The main financial points of the agreement were not disclosed, but the situations concerned the time of administration and the volume of the dose. At the request of the Government of Canada, the candidate vaccine is expected to be delivered in 2021.
“We continue to work with the Canadian government to combat this pandemic and are satisfied with its collaborative technique to address a national COVID-19-opposed immunization strategy with public fitness officials,” said Cole C. Pinnow, president of Pfizer Canada. “Through our combined efforts, we know that there are no fitness disorders we can’t address.”
“As the progression of effective vaccines opposing COVID-19 continues around the world, we applaud Pfizer and BioNTech’s paintings, which will allow Canadians an anti-virus candidate vaccine. This agreement is another critical step in our government’s efforts to ensure the protection and fitness of Canadians as the pandemic continues to evolve,” said Anita Anand, Minister of Public Service and Supply.
9:00 a.m. The Star discovered that Transport Canada relied on scant peer-reviewed clinical evidence related to the spread of COVID-19 on aircraft in its resolution of not imposing social estrangement on advertising flights.
When asked about the clinical evidence guiding its recommendations to airlines, Transport Canada first provided none, stating only that protective measures are “based on the most productive clinical evidence and testing.”
When pressured through Star to obtain this evidence, the firm only provided a peer-reviewed examination of a COVID-19 outbreak that affected 16 passengers on a flight from Singapore to Hangzhou, China, last January. The examination concluded that a passenger would likely have inflamed the flight.
Read the full story from the Star’s Kenyon Wallace: Is flying safe during COVID-19? Here’s the scant bit of scientific evidence Transport Canada is relying on
Authorities in the semi-autonomous Chinese city have ordered masks be worn in all public places, slapped restrictions on indoor dining, banned many activities and increased testing for coronavirus. Hong Kong has recorded a total of 3,669 cases and 42 deaths from COVID-19.
Of mainland China’s cases, 22 were in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital and largest city Urumqi has been the centre of China’s latest outbreak. China has reported 4,634 deaths among 84,491 cases since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
China said Tuesday it was working with the World Health Organization on an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but gave no word on when that would get underway.
8:46 a.m. Nevada health officials say 95% of the 980 new coronavirus cases reported statewide during the last day were in the Las Vegas area.
State coronavirus response officials said Tuesday that Clark County residents accounted for 931 of the positive COVID-19 tests reported. Confirmed cases statewide topped 52,000, and 15 more deaths brought Nevada’s total to at least 862.
Separately, the governor’s office issued a report tallying $16.7 billion in federal coronavirus funding to Nevada since Congress approved a $2.2 trillion emergency aid bill in March.
The report says nearly $2.2 billion went toward $600-per-week payments to idled workers statewide.
8:46 a.m. President Donald Trump says more Americans will be lost to COVID-19.
Trump was interviewed on a Fox Business Network on Tuesday. Trump said the relationship has been “very badly hurt” by the spread of the coronavirus and he repeated his belief China should have contained it.
The president noted the death toll in the United States, prematurely saying that 160,000 had died from the disease caused by the virus. He told host Lou Dobbs, “We’re going to lose more.”
Trump added that millions would have been lost if he hadn’t intervened and “just didn’t let it happen.”
The U.S. death told from COVID-19 stood at more than 156,000 on Tuesday evening.
8:46 a.m. A technical problem has caused a lag in California’s tally of coronavirus test results, casting doubt on the accuracy of recent data showing improvements in the infection rate and hindering efforts to track the spread.
State Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday that in recent days California has not been receiving a full count through electronic lab reports because of the unresolved issue.
The state’s data page now carries a disclaimer saying the numbers represent an underreporting of actual positive cases per day.
The latest daily tally posted Tuesday showed 4,526 new confirmed positives, the lowest in more than six weeks.
7:18 a.m. A cruise ship carrying more than 200 people docked in a Norwegian harbour Wednesday and ordered to keep everyone on board after a passenger from a previous trip tested positive for the coronavirus upon returning home to Denmark.
Bodoe Mayor Ida Pinneroed told NRK of Norway that the 85 members of the SeaDream 1 team would be screened for the virus and that the government was in contact with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to determine whether all 123 passengers would also be examined.
“We take it very seriously,” the mayor said.
The Norwegian company that owns the ship, SeaDream Yacht Club, said the former passenger had no symptoms of COVID-19 on the previous trip and returned from Tromsoe on 2 August. He and Denmark returned on Tuesday.
All other passengers on the inflamed person’s adventure will have to isolate themselves for 10 days, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said.
7:13 a.m. The World Health Organization is sending dozens of high-level experts to South Africa to the country to deal with the fifth largest number of coronavirus infections in the world.
South Africa has more than half-a-million confirmed COVID-19 cases and expects the first wave of infections to peak around the end of August, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told reporters. The WHO is responding to a request for help by sending 43 specialists, with several arriving Wednesday, he said.
While South Africa has reduced hospital admissions in recent weeks and its official number of deaths from the virus through 8,884 is low, medical researchers have discovered a gap between COVID-19 confirmed deaths in the country and the number of excessive herbal deaths.
6:57 a.m. Australia’s hot spot Victoria state announced a record 725 COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths on Wednesday, while businesses in Melbourne city prepared to draw down their shutters as new pandemic restrictions are enforced.
The 24-hour record was marginally higher than the 723 cases and 13 deaths reported last Thursday.
From late Wednesday, many non-essential businesses including most detail retailers, hair-dressers and gyms in Australia’s second-largest city will be closed for six weeks. People employed in essential jobs will have to carry passes under Australia’s toughest-ever lockdown restrictions.
Like Melbourne hospitals, Victoria’s prime minister Daniel Andrews has announced that non-urgent surgeries will be performed in hospitals in the Victoria region, where infection rates are lowest.
“It will be very challenging, but it is necessary to drive these numbers down,” Andrews said of the new restrictions.
He added that “the ion of more than 700 instances is sustainable.”
A Victoria state government website crashed on Wednesday when it was overwhelmed by employees in essential services applying for permits that would allow them to leave home for work from Thursday.
6:57 a.m. India has reported more than 50,000 new instances of coronavirus for the eighth consecutive day, resulting in more than 1.9 million instances shown in the country since the start of the pandemic. The Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday an increase of 52,509 new instances and 857 new deaths in the last 24 hours. The ministry said India’s cure rate among COVID-19 patients had reached 66.31%. It also stated that a record of 661,892 samples had been verified in the last 24 hours, bringing cumulative control to more than 2 million. He also said that 50% of deaths occurred in the organization aged 60 and over, 37% of deaths in the organization aged 45 to 60, and 11% in the organization aged 26 to 44. In gender distribution, 68% of the deceased were men and 32% were women.
6:47 a.m. Novavax Inc. shares saw huge swings in extended trading as investors took a critical eye to early data on its experimental vaccine for COVID-19 following a 3,800-percent rally in the stock this year.
The shares fell to 34% after Tuesday’s market, before reducing the decline. Operating before normal Wednesday hours, they went up 21 percent.
The two-injection regimen, administered in conjunction with Novavax’s immune strengthening technology, generated antibody responses 4 times higher than those seen in others who had recovered from the disease. Some of the healthy adults on the test had side effects, adding fever, headache and fatigue.
Confusion over the vaccine’s safety data arose after a media report incorrectly said trial participants were hospitalized with severe reactions. The vaccine appeared safe in the more than 100 patients who received it, according to the company. Reactions to the shots were generally mild, lasting two days or less. One patient getting the vaccine had a mild skin infection that was determined not to be related to the shot.
6:03 a.m. Poland reported 18 new coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, the most in a day since June 30, taking the total to 1,756 as an outbreak in the country’s industrial heartland worsens.
The pace of new cases slowed from Tuesday’s record 680, rising by 640 to 48,789, mostly in the southern coal mining region of Silesia and at a poultry processing company in the western district of Wielkopolska.
The government expects about six hundred new instances per day over the next period, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said Wednesday. The government will soon announce new restrictions, adding restaurants and marriages, to combat the epidemic in 20 affected countries, he said.
4:10 a.m. Nearly a portion of Canadians would have elections if the federal control body finds that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has violated the Conflict of Interest Act for the WE charity case, according to a new survey.
The Léger and Association of Canadian Studies polls also suggest that the WE controversy took a bite out of Trudeau’s popularity as well as that of the federal Liberal Party, putting conservatives on the success of the victory.
“For me, those numbers will worry or worry liberals right now because even though it’s summer, it raises a lot of eyebrows,” Léger’s executive vice president Christian Bourque said.
The online poll of 1,531 adult Canadians took place July 31 to Aug. 2, in the days following Trudeau’s appearance before a parliamentary committee to answer questions about the deal with WE. It cannot be assigned a margin of error because internet-based polls are not considered truly random.
The survey results come as federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion is investigating both Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau over whether they broke conflict-of-interest rules in relation to the government’s decision to give the WE organization a sole-sourced contract to run a $912-million student-volunteer program.
4 a.m.A Canadian company informed the government wednesday that its evidence of a possible COVID-19 vaccine on animals has completely blocked the virus, but it wants to conduct human testing to see if it has discovered an imaginable cure for the pandemic.
And a leading fitness care expert says the effects are promising even if they haven’t been peer-reviewed.
Providence Therapeutics says it needs federal funding to move forward, but it has not heard back from the Trudeau government since May, the month after submitting a $35-million proposal to conduct first-stage human trials.
Providence has told the government it could deliver five million doses of its new vaccine by mid-2021 for use in Canada if it were able to successfully complete human testing, but it has heard nothing.
San Francisco-based co-founder Eric Marcusson and its clinical director, said the company had completed tests on mice that showed that his vaccine was able to block the new coronavirus’s access to his cells.
4 a.m. on Wednesday A new suggests that Canadians, especially women, will face a potentially explosive buildup of intellectual disease for years after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the long run, Deloitte’s test estimates that emergency room visits for stress and anxiety disorders will accumulate from one to three, according to pre-pandemic penny-to-pandemic rates.
In addition, it is estimated that between 6.3 and 10.7 million Canadians will seek medical attention for intellectual fitness disorders, a massive accumulation of 54 to 163 consistent with a penny above pre-pandemic levels.
The consulting company says governments deserve to fund intellectual fitness services, suppliers deserve to prepare for demand, and insurance corporations deserve to review policy options.
Estimates are based on research into what happened in the years following the Fort McMurray chimney in 2016, which forced the evacuation of another 88,000 people and destroyed more than 2,400 homes in Alberta.
It’s also based on an analysis of the long-term impact on Canadians of the “great recession” of 2008-09, a global economic crash that was nowhere near as deep or as long-lasting as the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis.
Wednesday 12:05 p.m. The Walt Disney Company lost nearly $5 billion (USA) In April, May and June, while their theme parks were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a presentation made by Disney executives on Tuesday.
Charged the company $3.5 billion (USA) Just to close the parks in the third quarter, the most sensible of the $1 billion (US) That they were needed to close them in March.
In total, the company reported a loss of approximately $5 billion (US) For the third quarter, adding a loss of $2 billion (US) In your segment of parks, reports and products.
Disney National Parks – Disney World and Disneyland, such as Disneyland Paris, resorts and cruise ships were closed throughout the quarter and the last two weeks of the last quarter.
“This is a very dubious moment,” CEO Bob Chapek said tuesday in an online broadcast of the effects. “We deserve to be in a smart way once customer trust returns.”
7:30 p.m.: The Minister of Health of B.C. urges citizens to attend parties and personal meetings after the recent accumulation in instances of COVID-19 in the province.
Health Minister Adrian Dix said many of the most recent cases come from such occasions and the numbers are a reminder that other people will have to comply with public fitness regulations this summer.
British Columbia’s most sensible doctor, Bonnie Henry, says transmission remains low and citizens want to make sure it stays.
She says the non-unusual points in many of the most recent cases are talking, laughing and sharing drinks and food, especially indoors, as well as spending time in crowded areas.
In a briefing tuesday, Henry reported that 146 new instances of COVID-19 were detected since Friday and that there have been no more deaths.
Active instances increased to 319, while another 3,273 people recovered from the disease.
5:45 p.m.: from 5:00 p.m. On Tuesday, Ontario’s regional health offices reported a total of 41,682 reported or likely cases of COVID-19, 2,820 deaths, versus 125 new infections in 24 hours.
The expansion in instances across the province included a spike in Chatham-Kent, which on Tuesday reported 40 new instances for the 3 days of the long civic weekend.
Along with neighbouring Southwestern Public Health, Chatham-Kent is one of two Ontario health units that is currently seeing its highest rate of case growth since the start of the pandemic.
Elsewhere, cases continue to fall, and the province is overall at its lowest rate of new infections since well before the pandemic first peaked in Ontario in the spring.
Ontario has averaged 98 instances consistent with the day over the past seven days, to a peak of approximately six hundred consistent with the day in mid-April.
Meanwhile, three fatal cases were reported, two in Toronto and one in Simcoe-Muskoka.
The Star’s count includes some patients reported as “probable” COVID-19 cases, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or travel history that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received 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, stating that in case of discrepancy, “data reported through (health units) should be considered as the maximum updated”.
Read Tuesday’s evolving dossier