TORONTO – Winning debut for Simon Marcus (in the pic) in MMA. The torontino fighter, former world champion in kickboxing, defeated Anton Tokarchuk in his first Mixed Martial Arts match in a fight played in Enoch, Alberta.
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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of December 19, 2021, at 4:30 pm EST.
On Sunday, health officials in German logged 24,190 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 6.8 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 84.0% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 127 Covid-related deaths for a total of 108,963 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.
TORONTO – For Ontario students, the Christmas holidays have officially begun. What is not clear at the moment is whether the doors of the schools will reopen on January 4, but the current situation suggests that it will not happen. (more…)
TORONTO – Too late and too little: a film already seen, during this interminable Covid-19 pandemic. The provincial Government eventually decided to implement some mild restrictions to try to contain the new wave of Omicron that is sweeping Ontario as well as the rest of the world.
TORONTO – Experts’ negative predictions seem to come true, day after day: “thanks” to the Omicron variant, Ontario recorded over 4,000 new cases of Covid-19 today, the highest daily total in almost eight months. Provincial health officials have indeed detected 4,177 new infections, up from 3,301 on Saturday and 1,476 just a week ago. Today’s tally is the highest in the province since last April 23, when 4,505 new infections were reported. The seven-day moving average of daily cases is now word at 2,542: a week ago it was at 1,236. (more…)
