Day: 28 October 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 October 28, 2021, at 5:20 pm EST.

On Thursday, health officials in Russia logged 40,096 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 8.3 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 86.6% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 1,159 Covid-related deaths for a total of 235,057 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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Infections run in schools, PCR tests are coming November 15

TORONTO – Covid-19 and school. The bond, this year, seems to be stronger than in 2020. It is the numbers that give us the picture of the situation: last year at the end of October, 1,966 cases were detected in public schools since the beginning of the school year. This year the infections in the same period of time are as many as 4,454. The fault, say the doctors, is to be attributed to the variant of the Delta coronavirus that some scientists have discovered to be contagious like chickenpox.  (more…)

Environment and pandemic: Trudeau in Holland, then stops in Rome and Glasgow

TORONTO – Amsterdam, Rome, and Glasgow. These are the three stages of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to Europe, the first since this week’s swearing-in of his new government resulting from the elections on 20 September. The pandemic and the environment will be the two main topics on the agenda, especially at the G20 weekend in Rome – the first event of its kind organized in the Italian capital – and at the Scottish summit on 1 and 2 November that will take place in Scotland.  (more…)