Day: 15 July 2021

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of July 15, 2021, at 4:30pm EST.

On Thursday, health officials in the UK logged more than 48,000 new infections, the highest single day increase in seven months. Of the cumulative total of confirmed positive cases, 82.9% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, Covid-related deaths increased by 63, bringing total number of fatalities to 128,593.

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Today in Ontario 143 new infected and 10 new deaths

TORONTO – July 15, 2021: Canada stood today at 1,422,135 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 409 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – today reached 26,470 total deaths, 13 more than Wednesday. In Canada today the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,390,841. Ontario today reached 547,705 overall positives, an increase of 143 new cases compared to Wednesday. (more…)

Lecce, via racist language from text accompanying math curriculum. But it’s controversy

Controversy, disbelief and confusion. One can describe with these three words the reaction generated by the removal by the Ontario government of a section of the mathematics curriculum that makes “reference to racism and colonialism”. The government did not want to confirm when the changes were made but it seems that these followed the publication of recent articles in newspapers that highlighted a section that refers to the content, context and importance of mathematics as subjective. (more…)

Vancouver: un viaggio di scoperta e compassione in “Age of Innocence” di David C. Bellusci

(Fatti Nostri / Anna Foschi) L’ultima raccolta di poesie di David C. Bellusci accompagna il lettore attraverso la  profondità di un viaggio metafisico che comprende fasi della esistenza e della consapevolezza. Age of Innocence (Resource Publications, 2020) è composto da cinque segmenti, ognuno dei quali esplora da prospettive diverse un’ampia gamma di sentimenti umani, le differenze storico-culturali e il potere salvifico della natura… Read More in Fatti Nostri >>> 

Vaccine passport not on the horizon in Ontario, for now

TORONTO – The vaccination passport hypothesis continues to divide. The provincial government of Ontario has so far categorically ruled out the activation of a European-style Green Pass, a position that has been confirmed several times during the last few days of the Chief Medical Officer of Ontario Kieran Moore: for now a universal document certifying the double vaccination has taken place is not on the political agenda of the executive. Yet the debate on this thorny issue continues, as is happening in the Old Continent in the wake of the squeeze wanted in France by President Emmanuel Macron. (more…)