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Is Ontario’s critical care system prepared for a surge in cases?


The Covid-19 pandemic has presented challenges for Ontario’s critical care system. As infections trend upward, the scientific community cautions that hospital admissions will likely climb in the weeks to come.

On December 6, the Ministry of Health reported 168 patients in the province’s Intensive Care Units (ICU) due to Covid-related critical illness. That is the highest number of Covid-related ICU patients in more than two months, when the number reached 171 Covid ICU patients on September 30.

Covid, other schools closed. Over 8,000 cases in Ontario

TORONTO – Covid-19 infections in Ontario schools have skyrocketed to over 8000 – 8,095 to be precise. As well as in the whole community, even in schools the cases of the dreaded virus are constantly increasing: according to the latest data reported on the website of the Ontario government last Friday, within the last twenty-four years the new infections have stood at 172 of which 152 have affected students while the schools with at least one case of Covid-19 have been 792, those closed since last week’s peak of 16 have dropped to 9.

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 5, 2021, at 4:00 pm EST.

On Sunday, health officials in Russia logged 32,602 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 9.8 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 86.1% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 1,206 Covid-related deaths for a total of 281,278 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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 4, 2021, at 6:30 pm EST.

On Saturday, health officials in the UK logged 42,848 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 10.4 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 88.2% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 124 Covid-related deaths for a total of 145,551 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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 3, 2021, at 7:30 pm EST.

On Friday, health officials in Canada logged 3,079 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 1.8 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 96.8% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 14 Covid-related deaths for a total of 29,751 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.