The latest news about coronavirus from Canada and around the world on Wednesday.This record will be updated on the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
5:00 p.m.: As of 5:00 p.m. On Wednesday, Ontario’s regional fitness offices report 144 instances of COVID-19 in more than 24 hours, according to Star’s most recent count.
The vast majority of new cases occurred Wednesday in the Peel region, which reported an accumulation of 59 cases, and in Toronto, which reported 48.The two totals were the exercise sets in more than a month.
The GTA has noticed a steady increase in the number of cases since mid-August.On Wednesday, the region’s five sets of exercises reported a total of 117 new cases, the maximum in a day without getting married since July 13.
Meanwhile, the infection rate across the province continues to recover from a low in mid-August.On Wednesday, Ontario averaged 130 reported cases consistent with the day, to a minimum of 85 cases consistent with the day of August 16.
Even with recent increases, the rate of infection remains well below the worst of the pandemic; Ontario’s seven-day average peaked in mid-April in approximately six hundred instances consistent with the day.
A new fatal case reported Wednesday in Windsor-Essex.
The province has now recorded a total of 44,707 cases shown or likely of COVID-19, 2,850 deaths.
The vast majority of PATIENTS with COVID-19 in the province have since recovered.The province has just over 1,200 active cases of the disease, this number has increased in recent weeks.
Star’s count includes some patients reported as cases of “maximum probability” of COVID-19, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or backgrounds that imply they are most likely inflamed with the disease but have not yet won a positive laboratory test.
The province warns that its separate knowledge, disclosed daily at 10:30 am, would possibly be incomplete or replaced due to delays in the reporting system, stating that on the occasion of a discrepancy, “knowledge reported through (health units) will be considered as up-to-date.»
2:30 p.m.: The dreaded COVID-19 resurgence has already begun, Toronto Health Medical Officer Dr.Eileen de Villa, in the update of the Town Hall today.
There were 48 infections overnight, bringing the number of new infections in Toronto to 123 this week.
De Villa urges others who have let their guard down to return to stricter practices: they have noticed that infections spread among others they collect internally without a mask.Stick to your 10-person bubbles, beg.
2:05 p.m.: New Brunswick fitness officers say a foreign transitority in Moncton domain tested positive for COVID-19.
The new case is the infection reported in the province in the last 24 hours.
Authorities said in a press release released today that the inflamed user is between 20 and 29 years old and is ingested.
There have been 192 cases of COVID-19 and two deaths similar to the new coronavirus in New Brunswick since the onset of the pandemic.
Of these cases, 186 have recovered and 4 assets.
The province conducted a total of 62,222 COVID-19 tests.
1:58 p.m.: The Alberta government says $262 million in federal cash to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in schools will be distributed and quickly.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said $250 million will be distributed in forums according to students.
That’s about $350 consistent with the child for next year.
This budget can be used to cover COVID-19 costs, such as cleaning, non-public and personal protective appliances.
The remaining $12 million is earmarked for the school government that is seeing an increase in enrollment due to the construction of a call for its online learning programs.
LaGrange says he’ll make sure the money is paid to school forums as soon as he wins in Ottawa.
The budget will be transferred in two stages: one in September and one later in the year.
1:33 p.m.: Canada is still considering contributing to the foreign vaccine coalition known as COVAX, which aims to equitably distribute a COVID-19 vaccine to poorer countries that cannot.
The resolution contrasts with the Trump administration’s resolution in the United States on Tuesday to withdraw from the alliance of more than 150 countries to which the program is connected to the World Health Organization.
President Donald Trump ended U.S. investment in WHO in July because he says he is unduly influenced by China and wants reform.
A spokesman for Karina Gould, Canada’s Minister of International Development, said Trudeau’s government is executing the main points of a spending commitment for the so-called “COVAX Fund,” which is designed to ensure that future countries have equitable access to Remedy for COVID-19.
COVAX also allows investment countries to gain advantages from the outset to 20% of their population.
The initiative aims to circumvent the so-called nationalism of vaccines: the rush of individual countries to unload vaccines for their own populations, by purchasing advance doses directly from pharmaceutical companies.
1 p.m.: The Ontario Ombudsman will need to review the government’s return-to-school plan to ensure that it meets the necessary standards of protection, the province’s official opposition said in a formal request for the watchdog to investigate the reopening strategy.
New criticism of Democratic education Marit Stiles wrote in wednesday’s letter asking the ombudsman if the measures are in a position to meet expertly advised criteria.
Stiles points out in the letter to Paul Dube that the Ombudsman’s jurisdiction includes school forums and argues that an urgent investigation is needed to address the “confusion or anxiety” many feel.
12:45 p.m.: A 99-year-old World War II veteran traveled a hundred miles to raise a budget to fight COVID-19.
George Markow has been traveling with his elders in Newmarket, Ontario for several months and crossed the line this morning.
It raised approximately $47,000 for the Sunnybrook Research Institute and the COVID-19 Action Fund of the Southlake Regional Health Center Foundation.
Although Markow has achieved his mileage goal, he plans to keep walking because he enjoys the activity.
It also hopes to further increase the budget to fund studies on a COVID-19 vaccine.
Toronto Maple Leafs advanced to Zach Hyman Markow in a T-shirt after the veteran crossed the baseline.
12:15 p.m. (update): Ontario recorded its second highest count of new instances of COVID-19 since last July.
The Department of Health reported 133 new infections Wednesday, up from 112 the previous day, adding 105 in the Toronto and Hamilton metropolitan area.
The health government has suggested that Ontarions adhere to their precautions against the pandemic, as the number of cases continues to exceed one hundred according to the day after falling below this point in mid-August.
“We’ve noticed fried fish celebrations in the backyard in some cases, some of them serious,” warned Dr. Lawrence Loh, medical health officer in the Peel region.
The Toronto Department of Public Health was investigating a imaginable case at the Bay site in downtown Scarborough, and showed cases at The Keg and Joey restaurants in Sherway, as well as cases at Joey and Foot Locker in Yorkdale in recent days.
Rob Ferguson of Star has history.
11 a.m.(update): Ontario reports 133 cases today, the seventh consecutive day when the number is in 3 figures, according to the provincial count, last noticed in July.
No new deaths were reported.
Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted that with 137 other instances resolved, there is a minimum in the number of active instances. The province processed more than 24,000 tests on Tuesday and the province has already conducted more than 3 million tests to put the country under test. Elliott said.
Locally, 29 of Ontario’s 34 public fitness teams report five or fewer cases, and 21 of them report new cases.
10 a.m Array: A teachers’ union in Quebec says it will go to court to ask the government to put in position an immediate COVID-19 strategy in the school system.
The Autonomous Federation of Education, which represents some 49,000 teachers, said today that it had not yet noticed evidence of such a mechanism despite a promise made through the Minister of Health, Christian Dube, on 10 August.
The union says it will also ask the Quebec Superior Court to force the government to deliver all documents similar to the province’s fitness plan for schools, adding knowledge about COVID-19 infections.
The union’s president, Sylvain Mallette, said the lawsuit is an attempt to get responses from the province, which he said refused to provide the data that unions want to ensure the protection of academics and teachers.
Meanwhile, fitness in Quebec City is running to involve an epidemic of approximately 30 cases similar to a karaoke bar.
The authorities led Bar Le Kirouac to close until 9 September, and officials suggested others adhere to fitness guidelines, especially in meetings with alcohol involved.
9:44 a.m.Spend some time in gardening sites and between images of messy tomatoes and well-fed insects, it is transparent that the 2020 development season has been difficult.
Niagara College horticulture professor Paul Zammit is largely following the development season and this summer presented more challenges to gardeners: “It wasn’t a typical gardening season …the weather has caused ups and downs and prolonged intense heat.”For this reason, he says, “cucumbers and courgettes seem to have poor results, with very few knots, atrophy plants and many cucumber beetles devouring foliage plus pumpkin moth destroying plants.”
Zammit believes we are facing more “harmful” insects because more people are developing products, allowing them to have more food.Nursery and landscape specialist Jennifer Llewellyn of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAAARO) also won reports of larger populations of tomato horn, pumpkin mott and cucumber beetle.Lewellyn also believes this could be the result of more people developing products this year; Some other unforeseen-looking effect – with the materials garage and the first hen-raising on the lawn – of COVID-19.
Read Signe Langford’s full story
9:36 a.m.: Joe Biden plans to criticize President Donald Trump Wednesday for not helping the country’s schools safely reopen the coronavirus pandemic, as the Democratic challenger tries to remain the highlight of the outgoing Republican’s handling of the epidemic and the country’s overall security.
Biden and his wife, Jill, a long-time instructor and former high school instructor, will meet with public fitness experts to discuss the characteristics of school reopening.The candidate will then give a speech, his speech for the time being in three days, describing his concepts and accusing the president of making the country less secure.
Wilmington, Delaware’s occasion is the latest in a series of duels between Trump and Biden to turn the other into a risk to Americans’ safety.This will highlight his other arguments, with Trump leading the “law and order” debate and Biden pushing for a broad referendum on Trump’s competition.
“President Trump has no plan,” Biden’s adviser Symone Sanders said, advancing the former vice president’s comments on schools and the pandemic.”Instead,” he continued, “he believes that an alarmist crusade that fuels violence will.”
9:32 a.m.The Thai prime minister congratulated the country on Wednesday for a hundred days without showing cases of transmitted coronavirus, even as security along the border with Myanmar intensifies as a measure against the disease.
Health officials did not point to the achievement, but Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha described it as a “good achievement” to make the country safe.He took the opportunity to urge the government and others to paint in combination to lead the country from the COVID-19 crisis.
“If we don’t help others, none of us can move forward and the country can’t move forward, and other people will suffer more than they’ve already suffered,” he said.
Thailand suffered relatively minor physical damage from the pandemic, in January it was the first open-air country in China to verify a case, but its economy has been devastated by the absence of foreign tourists, a ban on entry and declining exports.
On Wednesday, the Thai fitness government reported 8 new cases of coronavirus, all among others arriving from abroad, bringing the country’s total to 3,425, adding 58 deaths.
9:29 a.m., Dollarama Inc. exceeded expectations with a profit in the second quarter of $142.5 million and a 7% increase in sales over the previous year.
The store said the profits were 46 cents consistent with the consistent diluted percentage for the quarter ended August 2, with earnings of $143.2 million or forty-five cents consistent with the diluted percentage consistent in the same quarter of the previous year, when it had more consistent outstanding percentages.
Sales for the quarter totaled $1 billion, up from $946 million the previous year, driven by an increase in the number of retail outlets and an increase in sales of summer seasonal parts, as well as family and cleaning products.
Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 42 cents consistent with consistent percentage and $975.7 million in revenue, according to money market knowledge company Refinitiv.
Sales of temporarily unclosed retail outlets rose to 5.4 according to the penny, while sales in the same store, adding temporarily closed retail outlets, rose 2.5 according to the penny.
Dollarama says the average duration of transactions is more than 41.7%, but that there is 25.7% to a minimum in the number of transactions, as consumers reduced the frequency with which they bought and bought more when they did.
9:15 a.m.Millions of Americans rely on a COVID-19 vaccine to curb the global pandemic and return to normal.
While one or more characteristics may be had by the end of this year or early next year, the path to delivering vaccines to another 330 million people remains doubtful for local fitness officials who are expected to do the job.
“We haven’t gotten much data on how this will develop,” said Dr. Umair Shah, executive director of the Harris County Department of Public Health in Texas, which includes Houston.
In a four-page memorandum this summer, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the country’s fitness departments to write immunization plans until October 1 “to coincide with the earliest imaginable release of the COVID-19 vaccine.”
But physical fitness that hasn’t received enough funding for decades says it has recently lacked staff, cash, and equipment to teach others about vaccines and then distribute, administer and track millions of doses.They also don’t know when or if they’ll get federal assistance to do so.
Dozens of doctors, nurses, and fitness officers interviewed through Kaiser Health News and the Associated Press expressed fear of the country’s willingness to conduct mass vaccinations, as frustration for months of inconsistent federal information.
9:05 a.m.South Korea is so proud of its management of the coronavirus pandemic that it coined a term for it: K-Quarantine, named after the global K-pop musical phenomenon.
Its dual strategy of fighting the virus by keeping the economy running: the country has virtually stopped a primary epidemic without definitive borders, blocking cities or provoking protests over draconian restrictions on freedom of expression and travel.has been presented as a style for the rest of the world.
But now South Korea is dealing with a momentary wave of infections, and its strategy is more precarious than ever.The new wave is spreading from Seoul’s metropolitan domain and through others who are deeply suspicious of President Moon Jae-in’s epidemiological efforts.In addition, some of the government’s top allies in the fight against COVID-19, young doctors, opposed Moon.They declared themselves on strike, unhappy with their health reform program.
The government is also seeking a sensitive balance between virus control and the protection of the economy, and between the use of government force to protect public aptitude and non-violation of civil liberties.
“Our quarantine strategy, once regarded as a style to follow in the rest of the world, is facing a crisis,” Moon said last week.”The whole country is in a delicate situation.People’s lives are falling apart.”
The daily number of cases of new infections in South Korea, once less than 10, has been in 3 figures every day since August 14, bringing the country from 50 million to more than 20,000 cases and 326 deaths, according to a New York report The virus temporarily spread from churches and a major protest rally against the government.Moon’s government has threatened the prosecution and prosecution of the faithful and demonstrators accused of obstructing the authorities’ efforts to combat the epidemic.But they rejected, calling him a dictator who ruled the country under “quarantine martial law.”
8:50 a.m.U. corporations created jobs at moderate speed last month, a personal survey revealed, a sign that as hiring continues, it only absorbs a small proportion of the unemployed.
Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that corporations added 428,000 jobs in August, a figure that, before the pandemic, would have been a healthy gain, but accumulation represents a small portion of the 12 million jobs that have been lost as a result of the spread of coronavirus.
ADP said most of the profits went to giant companies, which created 298,000 jobs; small businesses with fewer than 50 workers earned 52,000 jobs, while medium-sized enterprises, with between 50 and 499 workers, created 79,000 jobs.
The ADP figures do not come with officials and depart from the Official Employment Report of the Ministry of Labour, to be published on Friday.ADP revised its task gains upwards from July to 212,000, but still well below the additional 1.4 million tasks reported that month.through the federal government.
8:16 a.m.This month’s world road cycling championships moved to Imola, Italy, on Wednesday after Swiss host Aigle-Martigny withdrew due to a government resolution restricting massive meetings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The revised occasion from 24 to 27 September will feature only the elite men’s and women’s categories, eliminating youth and under-23 races.
“Most of the most sensitive athletes in the elite male and female categories are already in Europe, unlike their younger rivals (youth and under 23) whose national delegations, in a significant number of cases, will not be able to go to Italy.because of restrictions imposed in many countries,” the International Cycling Union said in a statement.
Swiss organizers of the championships, supposedly focused on Eagle, where the ICU is located, said they may not continue within a federal limit of another 1000 people for major coronavirus pandemic occasions.
7:47 a.m.Macy’s Inc. is slowly returning as critical holiday season approaches, recording profits that exceeded expectations this quarter.
Adjusted net branch loss of $251 million (US)U.S.) It was well above the loss of $538 million (US)U.S.) Expected by analysts, or less in line with expectations, as they try from a steeper decline at the beginning of the pandemic.
7:33 a.m. On Wednesday, the Greek government imposed around 40 14 days on an overcrowded migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, after a guy living outdoors in the official camp tested positive for coronavirus.
The 40-year-old Somali is the first reported case of coronavirus in the Moria camp, which as of August 31 was home to 12,714 people, up from its capacity of 2,757.
Greece’s Ministry of Migration said the inflamed man had been granted refugee prestige and an apartment permit to live in Greece and had left the camp on July 17, however, he returned in recent days and lived in an outdoor tent on the camp fence.Lately he’s been hospitalized in solitary confinement in Lesbos.
The Ministry of Migration stated that access to and exit of the camp would not be allowed until 15 September and that the presence of the police would be greater around the camp to ensure that the closure was not broken.
An essential group of workers will only be allowed in the camp after undergoing temperature checks.
6:35 a.m.Some European basketball club competitions have been postponed due to coronavirus restrictions on the continent.
The normal Season of the European Cup is now scheduled for January, and FIBA hoped to start the moment point festival in October.
FIBA also stated that the women’s Eurocup qualifying rounds were postponed in December and that the normal season is scheduled to start in January.
FIBA still hopes to start its Women’s Euroleague in time, with the normal season scheduled to begin in mid-October.
FiBA Europe’s Board of Directors will meet in October and talk about organizing its competencies in singles “bubbles”.
6:15 a.m.: India has recorded 78,357 new cases of coronavirus in more than 24 hours, bringing its total to more than 3.7 million as the government eases national pandemic restrictions on the suffering economy.
India, a country of 1.4 billion, fits into the global epicenter of coronaviruses, recorded the largest daily increases in new cases in more than 3 weeks, and, at the current rate, is expected to soon outperform Brazil and, nevertheless, the United States in general reported cases.
The Ministry of Health also reported 1,045 deaths in more than 24 hours on Wednesday, bringing the total number of deaths to 66,333 and now has the third number of deaths after recently surpassing Mexico’s record, according to a Johns Hopkins University account.
5:30 a.m.: US laboratories But it’s not the first time They have been struggling for months to get the materials they desperately want for COVID-19 testing, but the check crisis is brewing.
Other workhorses are also depleted, making it difficult for labs to stumble upon urinary tract infections, sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia and gonorrhea, gastroenteritis, also known as intestinal flu, and more.
“The effect of this chain of origin is much, much greater than if we couldn’t get our COVID tests in 24 hours,” said Melissa Miller, who runs the clinical and molecular microbiology labs at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Miller has been informed that some products are sold out through January 2021.
Especially in the run-up to the flu season, “I’m very worried, a lot more about things that aren’t COVID now,” she said.
5 a.m.: With the countdown to back-to-school, school forums are competing to make sure young people who stay home this fall have computers and the Internet that want to be informed remotely.
But gaps remain, some advocates say, as the pandemic highlights the virtual divide in the Toronto metropolitan area.
Despite the efforts of principals and teachers, Vivian Lee, a representative of charities who has worked in the nonprofit sector in the schooling of marginalized youth, describes the scenario as “a general tire fire disorder.”Although not as severe as in remote locations communities in northern Ontario that are “essentially in 2005,” the pandemic has exposed gaps in the Internet and generation in the Toronto metropolitan area.
“There have been many approaches with duct tape and glue,” he said.”Now it has a virtual visual split.”
Read May Warren’s full story here.
4:15 a.m.: The coronavirus access point in Australia, Victoria, prolonged its state of emergency for six more months as its weekly average of new infections decreased.
The victorian parliament’s office passed the law by 20 to 19 votes to enlarge the state of emergency, strengthening the government’s powers to impose restrictions in the event of a pandemic.
He had asked for an extension of 12 months.
The State Department of Health has reported new infections and six deaths in the last 24 hours, and 70 new infections were reported on Tuesday.
4 a.m.: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not allow the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent its same summer in various parts of the country; He’s practically doing it this year.
He will spend much of Wednesday’s meetings with political, commercial, environmental and educational leaders in British Columbia, all from the comfort of his in Ottawa.
And he’ll make a similar virtual tour of the Atlantic provinces on Thursday.
Summer is regularly an opportunity for the Prime Minister and other federal political leaders to interact extensively with the network leaders and the outdoor electorate of the Ottawa bubble.
Among other things, Trudeau regularly calls for a retreat in the closet and attends a retreat of the liberal open-air caucus in the nation’s capital each year before Parliament resumes in the fall.He, his ministers and liberal MPs are taking advantage of these opportunities to extend to host communities., pay attention to local concerns, make announcements, and publicte the government’s message.
4:00 a.m.: The most recent COVID-19 numbers shown in Canada at 4:00 a.m.EDT on September 2, 2020:
129,425 are shown in Canada.
Quebec: 62614 shown (including 5762 deaths, 55438 resolved)
Ontario: 42421 showed (including 2812 deaths, 38369 resolved)
Alberta: 14066 shown (including 241 deaths, 12,427 resolved)
British Columbia: 5848 shown (including 209 deaths, 4505 resolved)
Saskatchewan: 1622 shown (including 24 deaths, 1567 resolved)
Manitoba: 1232 shown (including 14 deaths, 759 resolved)
Nova Scotia: 1085 shown (including deaths, 1014 resolved)
Newfoundland and Labrador: 269 shown (including 3 deaths, 265 resolved)
New Brunswick: 191 shown (including 2 deaths, 186 resolved)
Prince Edward Island: shown (41 resolved)
Yukon: 15 shown (15 resolved)
Repatriated Canadians: Thirteen shown (thirteen resolved)
Northwest Territories: five shown (five of which are resolved)
Nunavut: no cases were shown
Total: 129,425 (0 presumption, 129,425 showed 9,132 deaths, 114,604 resolved)
This Canadian Press report was first published on September 2, 2020.
Tuesday: Toronto resident Neil Brereton was unable to use his coupons to buy a new flight because it took so long to get them and is one of many who say that even after complaining, they have noticed some action so far.
“I was told that the coupons had not yet been issued.I was surprised. Some of the original flights were cancelled in the spring,” a surprised Brereton said this week.With the seats disappearing quickly, he bit the ball and spent the $2,200 and points.
“Go to scatter my father’s ashes and take care of his estate, then have to face this?It’s horrible. I can’t, they’d do that.”
According to statistics published Tuesday through the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Canadian Transportation Agency has won more than 8,000 court cases opposed to Canadian airlines since March, more than it won in 2018 and 2019.
Read the full story of Josh Rubin here.
Read Tuesday’s evolutionary dossier