In Ontario 1,185 new infected and 6 deaths

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[GTranslate]TORONTO – March 9, 2021: Canada yesterday stood at 892,601 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 3,649 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 22,295 total deaths, 36 more than on Monday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 839,930. Ontario yesterday reached 311,112 overall positives, an increase of 1,185 new cases compared to Monday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,083, with 6 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 292,806, or 972 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 908 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 39 of the South African variant and 17 of the Brazilian variant. Continue reading→

Covid-19, St. Francis Xavier school closed

St. Francis Xavier Catholic School

[GTranslate]TORONTO – The list of schools closed in Ontario for the Coronavirus emergency is growing. The latest in the series is St. Francis Xavier Catholic School, where eight students and three staff have been infected since the outbreak on February 27. Since yesterday, the school at 53 Gracefield Avenue in North York has been closed. “As you know, as far as Covid-19 is concerned, we follow the recommendations of Toronto Public Health – said the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) at CP24 – the school will be temporarily closed starting today. We believe that the tests are being finalized, and as soon as they are available, the details will be shared.” Continue reading→

A poem in all languages
​​to embrace the world

[GTranslate]We can’t see each other, hugging is forbidden. And whoever is far away is staying far away, because we cannot travel. But there is poetry, which unites hearts. And if it is translated into all the languages ​​of the world, even distances fall. It’s what happened with “Parliamo con gli occhi” (“Let’s talk with our eyes”), which in a few months has become a sort of multilingual anthem (from Italian to Afrikaans, an end to the language of Native Canadians) that embraces the world just when the world itself cannot. A great little miracle in a pandemic, transformed into a project called, not by chance, “Poetry embraces the world”. Continue reading→

Una poesia in tutte le lingue
per abbracciare il mondo

Non possiamo vederci, è vietato abbracciarsi. E chi è lontano resta lontano, perché non possiamo viaggiare. Ma c’è la poesia, che unisce i cuori. E se tradotta in tutte le lingue del mondo, cancella anche le distanze. Come è accaduto con “Parliamo con gli occhi”, che in pochi mesi è diventata una sorta di inno multilingue (dall’Italiano all’Afrikaans, fino alla lingua dei Nativi Canadesi) che abbraccia il mondo proprio quando il mondo stesso non può farlo. Un piccolo grande miracolo in piena pandemia, che si è presto trasformato in un progetto intitolato, non a caso, “La poesia abbraccia il mondo”. Continue reading→

Covid-19 in Canada, 88.4% of victims is over 70 years old

[GTranslate]TORONTO – On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the rapid spread of Covid-19 a pandemic. A year later, with over 2.6 million deaths and 117 million cases worldwide, it is time to present a first, partial balance sheet, for a phenomenon that is still ongoing and represents a continuous threat, with the third wave also on the horizon in Canada and with the real risk represented by the variants of the virus. In Canada, according to data from Health Canada, a whole of 897,292 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded. The deaths ascertained by the health authorities attributed to the coronavirus in our country reached 22,286, most of them in Quebec – over 10,400 – and Ontario, over 7 thousand. Continue reading→

Update of the Covid-19 Landscape


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[GTranslate]Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of March 9, 2021, at 1:30pm (EST).

Globally, there have been over 117 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data.  Since the start of the pandemic, over 93 million people have recovered and more than 2.6 million fatalities were attributable to the virus.

অন্টারিওতে ‘সন্মান, সুরক্ষা ও মজুরি’র দাবিতে স্বাস্থ্যকর্মীরা আন্দোলন শুরু করেছে

মোহাম্মদ আলী বোখারী, সিএনএমএনজি নিউজ, টরন্টো

আন্তর্জাতিক নারী দিবসের প্রাক্কালে অন্টারিও প্রিমিয়ার ডাগ ফোর্ডের প্রতি ‘সন্মান, সুরক্ষা ও মজুরি’র দাবি সংবলিত সুস্পষ্ট বক্তব্য নিয়ে প্রদেশব্যাপি এসইআইইউ হেলথ্কেয়ার, ইউনিফোর ও কিউপ ইউনিয়নভুক্ত ১৭৫,০০০ স্বাস্থ্যসেবী কর্মীরা এক ভার্চুয়াল আহ্বানে আজ থেকে তাদের আন্দোলন শুরু করেছে। Continue reading→

Human rights violation in the Philippines, then and now….

Human rights violation in the Philippines, then and now…..MARCH 8,2021

Growing up in the heart of Manila where I was born, everything looked bright to me. I felt safe playing in the streets with my two younger siblings. My parents never had any cause to worry for our safety. The country which suffered at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army during the war was experiencing a rebirth and everyone was excited to be part of this rebirth. Continue reading→