Toronto private school Upper Canada College is reported to be temporarily closed after numerous positive cases of COVID-19. According to a media report by the CBC, the confirmed cases occurred with students at the private school in grades 4, 8, 9, and 12. When contacted by TRNTO.com, UCC issued a prepared statement. “The school works
An online portal for people to book their COVID-19 vaccine appointments in Ontario will be launched on March 15. Retired general Rick Hillier, head of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine task force, announced on Wednesday that people 80 and over will be able to book their appointments first, beginning on March 22. In April, people over 75
Ontario reported 847 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday — a drop from the 904 cases reported on Tuesday and 964 cases reported on Monday. It is also the lowest number of cases reported since October. The new cases break down to 257 in Toronto, 170 in Peel, and 131 in York Region (although according to
The City of Toronto announced that they are readying nine city-operated COVID-19 vaccination clinics. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Toronto Mayor John Tory cautioned Torontonians that these sites are “not opening tomorrow,” so people shouldn’t line up at these clinics until notified. The target date for opening the clinics will be in early April.
Premier Doug Ford today announced an end to the provincial emergency (to expire, as scheduled, at the end of Tuesday, Feb. 9) as well as plans to gradually move Ontario’s 34 public health units back to the province’s colour-coded reopening framework. Province-wide shutdown measures went into effect on Dec. 26, 2020, to stop the rapid
Ontario reported 1,563 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday — an increase from the 1,172 cases reported on Wednesday and the 745 on Tuesday, although those lower numbers were due to Toronto Public Health migrating their data to the provincial data system, resulting in an underestimation of cases. Of the new cases reported Thursday, 584 are
Providence Therapeutics, based in Toronto and Calgary, is a Canadian biotechnology company founded in 2015 to work in cancer research. Early research work was done with JLABS in Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District as well as the Sunnybrook Research Institute. When COVID-19 hit, the company pivoted and quickly designed a vaccine. Without any domestic facilities, Canada
Monday marks the one-year anniversary of the first reported case of the novel coronavirus in Canada, in a man who was admitted to Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital after returning from Wuhan, China (where the first cases of the virus were reported). Since then, Canada has recorded 747,383 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 664,621 recoveries (88.9 per cent)
Many Ontarians are wondering when lockdown restrictions will ease — particularly hard-hit regions of the province with the most stringent measures. Toronto and Peel Region, for example, entered lockdown on Nov. 23 last year, and just last week — in response to the daily number of COVID-19 cases reaching nearly 4,000 a day in early
Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a provincial state of emergency and a stay-at-home order, effective Thursday at 12:01 a.m., for at least 28 days. The announcement was made at a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, and comes amidst a recent surge in COVID-19 cases that provincial health officials believe can overwhelm the province’s health-care system. Ford’s
The Ontario government is developing more extreme measures to help curb the rising spread of COVID-19 across the province. Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet will consider the final package of measures Monday night at a cabinet meeting, with an announcement being made on Tuesday. A curfew, however, will likely not be part of the new restrictions
The city recently announced new transparency measures to identify workplaces with recent outbreaks of COVID-19 to prevent workplace spread. Along those lines, it can also help to know if the grocery stores you visit frequently have had any recent cases. There are some ways to find out if the grocery store you like to shop at
Ontario reported a record high 4,249 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. “Due to a data upload delay at Toronto Public Health, approximately 450 additional cases have been included in today’s count,” Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott noted. “These cases were primarily from January 5th and 6th.” Of the reported new COVID-19 cases, 1,382 new
Ontario reported 3,128 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, along with 51 new deaths (22 from long-term care homes), and nearly 35,200 tests completed (down from 4,000 recorded on Monday). The numbers are slightly higher than the 2,964 cases reported on Sunday but lower than the 3,270 cases reported on Monday, and the 3,363 recorded on
Ontario reported 2,139 COVID-19 cases Wednesday, making this the second-largest daily increase in cases Ontario has seen since the pandemic began (but a minor decrease from Tuesday’s record-breaking 2,275 cases). The province also reported 43 more deaths, meaning the death toll in the province has risen to 4,035. Out of Wednesday’s death toll, 22 were
Ontario’s first doses of the Health Canada approved Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be administered in Toronto today. The shots will be administered at a pilot site at the University Health Network in Toronto (the exact location hasn’t been revealed for safety reasons). Retired General Rick Hillier, head of Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, told
Ontario’s first COVID-19 vaccine will be administered on Tuesday, Dec. 15. In a statement released on Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said that the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will be administered at University Health Network in Toronto as well as Ottawa Hospital, to health care workers who provide care in long-term care homes
While a COVID-19 vaccination will be voluntary in Ontario, Ontarians will likely be provided with a proof of vaccine card. In a press conference on Tuesday, Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott added that it may be required to access certain settings. “That is going to be really important for travel purposes, perhaps for work purposes
Ontario is reporting 1,746 cases of COVID-19 today, an increase from the 1,708 recorded the previous day, but a decrease from the 1,855 reported on Friday. The province is also reporting 1,320 more resolved cases, but only 39,400 tests were complete (compared to the more than 50,000 tests completed each day for the prior three
Ontario reported 1,855 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, a 25.5% increase from the day before and a record-high in the province. There were also 1,451 resolved cases (an increase of 6.3% compared to the previous day), and an increase of 20 deaths (a reduction of 4.8% compared to the previous day). The highest numbers
The last time we spoke with Dr. Phil Shin, the COVID-19 virus was just starting to take hold in the city’s hospitals. Elective surgeries were cancelled and the hospitals were preparing for the worst. Now, after months of relative calm, the second wave is here. How is it different? What have we learned? TRNTO.com checked
Ontario is reporting 1,417 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday—a 13.5 per cent increase from the 1,249 cases reported the previous day. There are 32 more deaths (nearly three times the amount of deaths reported yesterday), and 1,495 more resolved cases. Case counts are high in the usual hot spots: 463 new cases in Peel
Ontario reported 1,249 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday — a decrease from the 1,487 cases recorded on Monday. The province also reported 12 new deaths (an increase from the 10 deaths reported on Monday). These figures bring the total number of COVID-19 cases in Ontario to 96,745, with 80,430 cases resolved, and 3,383 deaths.
The Quebec provincial government is considering extending winter break for schools as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. To date, more than 1,100 classrooms in Quebec have been shut down due to COVID-19, officials noted at a press conference on Thursday. Students and staff typically enjoy two weeks off in the winter, usually beginning around Christmas
On Thursday, the province reported 1,575 new cases of COVID-19 — the highest number ever reported in Ontario. It broke the previous day’s record (of 1,426 cases), and it was the fourth day of record-breaking COVID numbers in less than a week. There were also 917 more resolved cases and nearly 39,600 tests completed. The
