Worldwide stats provided by Worldometers put the global COVID-19 number of reported cases today at 101,553,797. (Deaths: 2,186,709 and Recovered: 73,444,958)
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 Thursday January 28, 2021:
Health Canada reported 761,226 confirmed cases of COVID-19, to date. 57,740 cases are active, there have been 19,533 deaths and 683,953 people have recovered.
The official Province of Ontario website is reporting 260,370 total confirmed cases and 5,958 total deaths. 21,932 are active. Currently, there are 1,382 people are in hospital with 377 of those cases currently in ICU. 232,480 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 257,330. (15,479 are active)
The Region of Durham reported 10,411 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (438 active). Clarington rose to 756 cases, of which 31 are active. Hospitalized in Clarington currently: "4", total deceased: "10"
In international news,
(But, they told us it came from a bat?) WHO team in Wuhan probing COVID-19 origins moves out of quarantine. A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic left its quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019.
In national news,
Holiday season vacations coincide with rise in COVID-19 travel-related cases. As the federal government prepares to slap new restrictions on international travel, Health Canada data suggest a worrying uptick of infections directly connected to foreign arrivals. While travel exposures account for less than two per cent of all Canada’s COVID-19 cases, the number of cases in recent travellers, and people they came into close contact with after arriving, shows continual growth in recent months. In December, 486 cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in recent travellers, the most since March and up from 312 in November and 204 in October. Despite mandatory two-week quarantines for international travellers, there were 1,258 COVID-19 cases confirmed in people who had close contact with a recent traveller in December, up from 744 in November and 704 in October. In the first three weeks of January, 384 travel cases and 607 traveller-contact cases were confirmed. The figures also correspond with a recent rise in the number of people travelling, at least by air. Land-border arrivals are typically fewer in the winter because of the weather in much of the country, but more people arrived from the U.S. by air in December than any month since March. Arrivals from other international locations were higher in December than any month except August. Reports of notable Canadians ignoring pleas not to travel during the pandemic in favour of sun-kissed days on foreign beaches angered much of the country in the weeks after Christmas, and led to several high-profile provincial and federal politicians and health officials being fired, demoted or reprimanded. Between Nov. 30 and Dec. 27, 86,953 people flew into Canada from the United States, and 184,260 arrived by air from other international locations.
(Maybe send the disgraced Governor General as our ambassador, Justin? Apparently, she's quite the diplomat.) EU assures me it won’t cut off our COVID-19 vaccine shipments, Trudeau says. With Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole warning of “vaccine protectionism” abroad, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that a top European Union leader assured him the bloc’s export controls will not cut off shipments of vital COVID-19 shots to Canada. During Question Period on Wednesday, O’Toole repeatedly pressed the prime minister on the government’s efforts to supply vaccines to Canadians. Pointing to how the European Union is implementing measures to monitor the export of COVID shots manufactured in member countries, the Conservative leader said in French that the “ferocious” global race for vaccines poses a risk to Canadian supply. Trudeau responded that he had spoken with EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen an hour earlier, and that she assured him the bloc’s measures are aimed at “transparency” and that they wouldn’t affect Canada’s contracts with vaccine suppliers in Europe. “We are all interested to see us receive the doses of vaccine that we purchased,” Trudeau said in French, appearing by video in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
In Ontario,
Ontario extends dose intervals due to shortage of vaccine. Memo says lack of stable supply necessitates changes. Citing the lack of new Pfizer vaccine deliveries this week, Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, issued a memo detailing how and when the province’s vaccine program will be extended up to 42 days. The memo, issued to hospitals CEOs and local medical officers, says the lack of stable supply necessitates the changes.“As you are aware, the Ministry received confirmation from the federal government last week that Ontario will not be receiving any Pfizer-BioNTech allocations for the week of Jan. 25 and only 26,325 doses in the week of Feb. 1. No further information has been provided for weeks of Feb. 8 or (Feb.) 15,” Williams said in his memo. Williams said that he understands this will change the province’s ability to vaccinate residents as planned. “However, this does not stop the vaccination program rollout, and it does not change Ontario’s commitment to vaccinating and protecting our residents in long-term care, high-risk retirement, and First Nations elder care homes,” Williams said.
Communities in northwestern Ontario asking province to change lockdown rules. Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls formally asks province to go back to regional approach.
The frustration with a provincial lockdown in northwestern Ontario is growing, and two communities in the region are officially marking their concerns at their municipal council tables. Earlier this week, Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls council asked the province to reconsider its rules when it comes to the provincial lockdown. Ontario should go back to using its regional approach, a resolution stated. The resolution specifically asked the provincial government to:
-Increase consultations with communities and small businesses in the North to find realistic ways for supporting businesses throughout the lockdown;
-Revisit blanket-provincial measures to COVID-19 response;
-Allow small businesses to remain open to in-store sales, with limited capacity and increased safety measures;
-Allow accommodation-based operators to function on a risk-based, regionally appropriate model, with increased safety measures;
-Permit construction work on a risk-based, regionally appropriate model, with increased safety measures, especially in the North, where large infrastructure related to pandemic response and health care do not comprise the majority of projects; and,
-That provincial relief funding programs be broadened to better address the needs of tourism-based, seasonally-based and sole proprietor industries.
Dufresne said the vast majority of businesses in the community are small businesses. Two will close at the end of the month.
In small town news,
Ontario reports 1,740 new COVID-19 cases, including 11 in greater Kawarthas region. Active regional cases fall to 155, with 6 new cases in Peterborough, 3 in Kawartha Lakes, and 2 in Northumberland. There are double-digit increases in Waterloo (77), Windsor-Essex (59), Hamilton (59), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (55), Durham (51), Halton (49), Niagara (49), Simcoe Muskoka (36), Middlesex-London (34), Ottawa (32), Eastern Ontario (18), Southwestern (13), Sudbury (12), and Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (12), with smaller increases in Brant (9), Chatham-Kent (7), Thunder Bay (6), and Lambton (6). The remaining 13 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 7 health units reporting no new cases at all. Of today’s new cases, 51% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (636) among people ages 20-39, followed by 497 cases among people ages 40-59. With 2,261 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.3% to 88.8%.
Musing,
DAT's COLD out there.
Wolf Moon tonight, check it out.
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." (CALVIN COOLIDGE)
Do anti-maskers also refuse to wear seatbelts? Just wondering....(I assume they do not use hospitals either, as hospitals utilize things called "science" and "modern medicine.")
Did you know...the Swedish language has over 25 different words for "snow"? (I have one, it's "goddamit".)
Have you ever......noticed that a kazoo looks just like a weed pipe?
WTF is ...............timbre?
On this day in history, at 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger. She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger‘s launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems. Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.
Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle broke up in a forking plume of smoke and fire. Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors.
Today is - NATIONAL FUN AT WORK DAY – NATIONAL KAZOO DAY – NATIONAL BLUEBERRY PANCAKE DAY – DATA PRIVACY DAY
The Bank of Canada unclaimed balances portal can be found here.
COVID-19 vaccination approximate dates here.
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Here is how to clean your non-medical mask.
To book a COVID-19 test in Durham Region, click here.
Lakeridge Health Mental Health Clinic 905-440-7534 or toll free at 1-833-392-7363 (Monday-Friday 9am-4pm)
Live coronavirus map of Canada: Tracking every case of COVID-19 in the country.
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