Day: 16 December 2021

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide


Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of December 16, 2021, at 4:40 pm EST.

On Thursday, health officials in Poland logged 22,097 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 3.9 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 86.1% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 592 Covid-related deaths for a total of 90,306 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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Over 30 thousand deaths from Covid-19 in Canada. The experts: “The worst is yet to come”

 

TORONTO – Skyrocketing infections and more than thirty thousand deaths from Covid-19 throughout Canada since the beginning of the pandemic: these are the sad data of today, negative on all fronts. Let’s start with Ontario, which reported the highest daily count of new cases in seven months. The province has in fact registered 2,421 new infections (53% of which of the Omicron variant), with an impressive increase compared to 1,808 new cases. Earlier this week, 1,476 new cases had been registered on Monday, 1,536 on Tuesday and 1,429 on Wednesday.  (more…)

Daily update of Ontario’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign


With the largest vaccination campaign underway, the province has administered more than 24.8 million doses into the arms of Ontarians. According to data last updated on December 16, numbers released by the Ministry of Health show health officials administered 137,803 vaccine doses on Wednesday, up from 127,613 doses the day prior.

This graph represents Ontario’s progress thus far in the vaccination campaign (see above). The dark blue bar represents the population of Ontario, an estimated 14.5 million. Health officials suggest the critical threshold for vaccination is now estimated to be at least 90% of the population. That translates to roughly 13,050,000 people that would need to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19.

So far, 12,047,096 people have received at least one or both shots of the vaccine, 83.1% of the entire population (green segment).

A total of 11,345,168 people are fully inoculated against the virus. That number represents about 78.2% of the Ontario population, (yellow segment).