Year: 2021

L’Ontario supera i 1.500 casi in 24 ore

TORONTO – Altre 1.536 nuove infezioni: sono quelle registrate ieri in Ontario, contro le 1.476 di domenica e le 887 di lunedì scorso. Con 38.221 test elaborati nelle ultime 24 ore, l’Ontario raggiunge dunque un tasso di positività del 5,5%, in aumento significativo rispetto al 3,5% di una settimana fa. La media mobile di sette giorni di nuove infezioni ha ora raggiunto 1.328, rispetto alle 940 di lunedì scorso… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

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 December 13, 2021, at 5:00 pm EST.

On Monday, health officials in Russia logged 29,558 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 10 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 87.3% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 1,121 Covid-related deaths for a total of 290,604 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

Long-Term Care homes, from today the vaccination is mandatory

TORONTO – Time is up. Since today, staff in Ontario’s long-term care homes, if they want to continue working in these facilities, must be fully vaccinated. The original deadline set for workers in the sector among the most affected by Covid-19 has been postponed from November 12 to December 13, said LTC ministry spokeswoman Vanessa De Matteis, following the recommendation of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization. 

“Omicron and mild symptoms? That’s a myth, it’s very dangerous”

TORONTO – The threat posed by Omicron is frightening. The new variant has created a climate of great concern in the international scientific community, although at the moment there is no unequivocal assessment of this new threat. On the one hand, in fact, we have numerous virologists who have highlighted how the first data coming from South Africa and Europe have highlighted a greater transmissibility of the coronavirus and, at the same time, the presence of generally milder symptoms for the infected compared to the Delta strain and the other variants that have characterized this pandemic.