Worldwide stats provided by worldometers put the global COVID-19 number of reported cases today at 43,405,696. (Deaths: 1,159,835 and Recovered: 31,935,211)
I emphasize reported because there is a wide variance in testing and manner of reporting from country to country and place to place.
As of 6:00 a.m. ET on Monday October 26, 2020:
Health Canada reported 216,104 confirmed cases of COVID-19, to date. 24,729 cases are active, there have been 9,946 deaths and 181,429 people have recovered.
The official Province of Ontario website is reporting 70,373 total confirmed cases and 3,093 total deaths. 7,120 are active. Currently, there are 278 people are in hospital with 79 of those in ICU. 60,160 cases have been resolved. (Hospitalizations in Ontario are steadily rising and of note, the total capacity number for ICU beds is 350. ICU bed utilization is the number to watch, not the total cases.)
Quebec continues to have the highest reported cases in the country with 100,114. (9,143 are active) Quebec case numbers continue to rise at the highest rate in Canada.
The Region of Durham reported 2,834 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The site reports 3 current outbreaks (Hospitals, LTCF's and Retirement Homes) with 42 outbreaks having been "concluded." Clarington rose to 193 cases. (13 are in isolation, 171 are resolved and 7 people have passed away. Hospitalized in Clarington currently: "2") School and Child Care Center outbreaks sit at "7", with 3 having been concluded.
In international news,
From Reuters, Spain declares coronavirus state of emergency. Spain will impose measures including nighttime curfews and limits on the number of people allowed to meet in a bid to contain a surging second wave of coronavirus infections. David Doyle reports. Full video story here.
Europe prepares for more pain ahead as COVID surges. European leaders warned of difficult months ahead as the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic forced authorities to impose new restrictions to try to curb the spread of the disease. Word that a vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc produced immune responses in both elderly and young people offered some positive news. However, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock cautioned that the vaccine would not be widely available until next year and said “we’re not there yet”. Elsewhere the picture was unrelentingly grim as a string of countries reported record increases, led by France, which posted more than 50,000 daily cases for the first time on Sunday, while the continent passed the threshold of 250,000 deaths.
From PVDN, ECONOMIC CLOSINGS ARE IMMINENT IN JALISCO DUE TO INCREASE OF COVID-9, GOVERNOR. The governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, said this Sunday that the application of the state mechanism of the “emergency button” is “imminent”, with more restrictions on activities due to the outbreak of COVID that the entity has registered in October. “The downward trend that we had achieved throughout the month of September changed in October, and in recent weeks an upward trend has been sustained ,” Alfaro said in a video. “It seems that we lost our fear of the virus. The shopping malls are full, the restaurants with lines to enter, the bars full, houses became centers of meeting and partying, people walking around as if nothing was happening”, he added. The indicators that the entity defined for the activation of the emergency button, he said, have reached a critical point. He referred that there is a cumulative incidence rate of 396.7 cases, with the limit for the button being 400. (Every now and then I allow myself to think we might be able to get to PV this winter. But, as each day passes, I lose hope.)
In national news,
Sobering milestones: Quebec passes 100,000 COVID-19 mark, Ontario counts highest daily count since pandemic start. Despite registering comparable daily tallies, the two provinces long at the epicentre of Canada's COVID-19 cases appeared to be on opposite trajectories. The Canadian provinces hardest hit by the global COVID-19 pandemic released sobering numbers on Sunday, with Quebec’s overall case count passing the 100,000 mark and Ontario registering more than 1,000 single-day cases for the first time since the start of the worldwide outbreak. Public health experts noted that Quebec’s long-standing high case counts appeared to be levelling off, while stressing the week ahead will be crucial to bring Ontario’s surging numbers back under control. Quebec health officials reported 879 new cases, bringing the province’s total to 100,114 infections. The province also recorded 11 additional deaths attributed to the virus, for a total of 6,143. “Comparing the past two weeks, we see that the number of cases is stable, but remains high,” Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube said on Twitter, urging people to make an effort to reduce transmission of the virus.
From the National Post, Vote to review Liberals response to COVID-19 highlights showdown between politics and science. Researchers studying the response of political elites here in the early days of the pandemic found no evidence of MPs casting doubt on the pandemic, or spreading conspiracy theories about it. Monday’s vote on a Conservative motion to launch an in-depth review of the Liberal government’s COVID-19 response highlights a key challenge of pandemic politics: how to hold a government accountable for decisions based on science, when the science itself is changing nearly every day. The opposition wants a committee probe into everything from why regulators are taking so long to approve rapid testing to an early decision not to close the border to international travel, and what concerns the Liberals is how that probe is being framed. “One of the narratives that I find most distressing coming from the opposition, is that somehow because advice changed at some point that the government was hiding information or that the government was giving misinformation,” Health Minister Patty Hajdu said late last week. “And nothing could be further from the truth.” It’s not the science itself that’s up for debate, said Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole.
In Ontario,
Yesterday, Ontario records more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time ever. Ontario is reporting more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time, setting another record for the number of infections in a single day. Health officials confirmed 1,042 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario on Sunday. It comes after the province saw 978 infections on Saturday. According to modelling data released by the provincial government in late September, Ontario was forecast to hit 1,000 new cases per day by mid-October. As usual, the majority of cases were found in Ontario's four COVID-19 hotspots, which are currently in a modified Stage 2. There are 309 new cases in Toronto, 289 in Peel Region, 117 in York Region and 80 in Ottawa. Ontario also reported seven new COVID-19-related deaths in the province, bringing the total number of fatalities to 3,093. The total number of lab-confirmed infections in the province is now 70,373, including deaths and recoveries. There were 736 more cases considered to be resolved by officials on Sunday. The province now has a total of 60,160 recovered patients. The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 857 compared to 747 a week ago.
Business owners in Halton and Durham fear possible Monday lockdown. With Toronto, Peel and York already in a so-called modified Stage 2 lockdown, business owners in Durham and Halton find out Monday whether they, too, will be forced to comply with COVID restrictions. Modified Stage 2 measures have put an end to indoor dining, closed bars and shuttered gyms, and other operations in Toronto, York and Peel. Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter urged the province to examine the data as he doesn’t believe the uptick in COVID-19 cases is the result of culinary or community businesses. “Our restaurants are doing an extraordinary job in tracing and using PPEs. It will be devastating if we take a step back to (Stage 2),” Carter said Sunday. He blamed the rising number of cases on private gatherings and noted there has been some spread of the COVID virus in schools. “Small businesses are just holding on and another shutdown will close them down,” Carter said. The mayors of communities in Halton Region — Burlington’s Marianne Meed Ward, Halton Hills’ Rick Bonnette, Milton’s Gord Krantz, and Oakville’s Rob Burton — sent a letter Premier Doug Ford, urging him to reject a blanket approach that “unfairly punishes” small businesses.
In local news,
Durham Region reported 41 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, following 34 on Saturday and 51 on Friday. There are 235 active cases in Durham as of Oct. 25, with 225 people isolating at home and 10 in hospital. The highest number of active cases can be found in Ajax, which has 80. Here is the regional breakdown as of Sunday:
Pickering — 811 total cases, 46 active (nine new cases)
Ajax — 819 total cases, 82 active (14 new cases)
Whitby — 391 total cases, 34 active (eight new cases)
Oshawa — 458 total cases, 53 active (eight new cases)
Clarington — 193 total cases, 15 active (one new case)
Uxbridge — 118 total cases, four active (no new cases)
Scugog — 26 total cases, zero active (no new cases)
Brock — 18 total cases, one active (one new case)
Musing,
"I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies." (WINSTON CHURCHILL)
Halton and Durham going to Stage 2, today? So, people in those regions are just going to go to the neighbouring region to dine/drink/shop/socialize.
Have you ever....been to a fondue dinner party? Groovy, baby!!
Did you know....in the early 1900s one thousand dollars was considered to be a "grand" sum of money, and the criminal underground adopted "grand" as a code word for one thousand dollars.
On this day in history, Shootout at the O.K. Corral.
On October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless. The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and murderers. In October 1881, the struggle between these two groups for control of Tombstone and Cochise County ended in a blaze of gunfire at the OK Corral.
In 1825, the Erie Canal opens.
The Erie Canal opens, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River. Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York, the driving force behind the project, led the opening ceremonies and rode the canal boat Seneca Chief from Buffalo to New York City.
Today is - NATIONAL PUMPKIN DAY – NATIONAL DAY OF THE DEPLOYED – NATIONAL MULE DAY – NATIONAL FINANCIAL CRIME FIGHTER DAY – NATIONAL MINCEMEAT DAY – NATIONAL TENNESSEE DAY
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