Worldwide stats provided by Worldometers put the global COVID-19 number of reported cases today at 100,982,261. (Deaths: 2,170,982 and Recovered: 73,002,108)
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 Wednesday January 27, 2021:
Health Canada reported 757,022 confirmed cases of COVID-19, to date. 59,551 cases are active, there have been 19,403 deaths and 678,068 people have recovered.
The official Province of Ontario website is reporting 258,700 total confirmed cases and 5,909 total deaths. 23,036 are active. Currently, there are 1,466 people are in hospital with 383 of those cases currently in ICU. 229,755 cases have been resolved. The government has previously said that once the number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU exceeds 300, it becomes nearly impossible for health-care workers to provide care not related to the disease. Ontario has now surpassed Quebec in active cases.
Quebec continues to have the highest reported cases in the country with 256,002. (15,622 are active)
The Region of Durham reported 10,358 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (484 active). Clarington rose to 752 cases, of which 33 are active. Hospitalized in Clarington currently: "4", total deceased: "10" (Despite lower Ontario numbers, Durham Region is steadily on the increase.)
In international news,
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as countries around the world struggle with new virus variants and vaccine shortfalls. Almost 1.3% of the world’s population has now been infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and more than 2.1 million people have died. One person has been infected every 7.7 seconds, on average, since the start of the year. Around 668,250 cases have been reported each day over the same period, and the global fatality rate stands at 2.15%. The worst-affected countries – the United States, India, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom – make up more than half all reported COVID-19 cases but represent 28% of the global population, according to a Reuters analysis. It took the world 11 months to record the first 50 million cases of the pandemic, compared to just three months for cases to double to 100 million.
In national news,
(Sadly, I am at the "so what?" stage. I've just given up.) An op-ed from the Toronto Sun: LILLEY: Who wants to defend Trudeau's vaccine plan now? The Trudeau government knew about problems with the deal to develop a COVID-19 vaccine with a Chinese firm within days of announcing it but kept the truth hidden from the public for months. The shocking revelations are contained in new documents tabled by the Trudeau government in the House of Commons this week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau highlighted the deal on May 16, 2020, though he didn’t specifically mention Chinese pharmaceutical firm, CanSino, in his remarks. He simply said that the National Research Council (NRC) would work with a manufacturer. “If these vaccine trials are successful, we can produce and distribute it here at home,” Trudeau said. Yet, just days later the government found out there were problems. “On May 19, 2020, the government learned that a shipment of Ad5-nCoV vaccine candidate seeds destined for Canada was being held by the General Administration of Customs of China at Beijing Capital International Airport,” documents tabled in the House of Commons said. (The full article is here)
(Nobody, or nothing has done more damage to this country than Justin and his Liberals, yet nobody cares. He gets up there on the bully pulpit, uses his best drama teacher talk, finger wags at us and then doesn't answer anything. Yet, Canada loves him because he bought us off with CERB money. By the way, if you didn't already know what bully pulpit meant, stop reading this blog and go back to watching shows on Netflix.)
In Ontario,
(But, tests were also at an all-time low? Hmmmm) Ontario reports 1,670 new COVID-19 cases — fewest since late November. Downward trajectory of 7-day average of new daily cases continued. Ontario reported 1,670 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the fewest on a single day since late November. They include 450 in Toronto, 342 in Peel Region, 171 in York Region and 128 in Niagara Region. Other public health units that saw double-digit increases were:
Hamilton: 84
Ottawa: 82
Waterloo Region: 75
Durham Region: 63
Halton Region: 48
Windsor-Essex: 37
Middlesex-London: 36
Eastern Ontario: 28
Simcoe Muskoka: 21
Brant County: 15
Chatham-Kent: 15
Thunder Bay: 14
Sudbury: 13
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 10
Porcupine: 10
(But yet, the international flights just keep on landing at Pearson) Hundreds of Pearson travellers test positive for COVID-19, Ford wants more tests. According to the federal government, at least 156 flights have landed in Canada between Jan. 10 and Jan. 23 that had passengers who tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in the country. The majority of the flights landed in Toronto (76), Montreal (40), and Calgary (24). There were also 70 domestic flights that had a passenger later test positive for the novel coronavirus. (So, our American friends can't visit [through a land border] but anywhere else in the planet? No worries, come on in!)
In small town news,
It’s a historic day for local communities as the first COVID-19 vaccines will start going into arms of area long-term care residents today. Earlier this week, the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit confirmed the first batch of vaccines – 700 doses of the Moderna vaccine – for the Northumberland, Kawartha and Haliburton areas. “This is the day we have been waiting for,” said Dr. Ian Gemmill, the health unit’s acting medical officer of health, following confirmation of the region’s first shipment, which did arrive earlier than anticipated. (Previous reports indicated the vaccine would arrive in early February.)
Musing,
The word "critical" has become so over-used during the pandeminc, that the word has lost the intensity of its meaning.
"April, is the cruelest month" (T.S. Eliot)
Have you ever...used records as frisbees? (And yes, it is dangerous)
WTF is ...............an LP?
Did you know............peanut butter can be converted to diamonds?
On this day in history, on January 27, 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.” The 33 men who originally met and formed the National Geographic Society were a diverse group of geographers, explorers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers, military officers and financiers. All shared an interest in scientific and geographical knowledge, as well as an opinion that in a time of discovery, invention, change and mass communication, Americans were becoming more curious about the world around them. With this in mind, the men drafted a constitution and elected as the Society’s president a lawyer and philanthropist named Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Neither a scientist nor a geographer, Hubbard represented the Society’s desire to reach out to the layman.
Today is - LIBRARY SHELFIE DAY – NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY
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COVID-19 vaccination approximate dates here.
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