Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of April 27, 2021 at 5:00pm EST.
Cases continue to mount in India as the country reports its highest one-day increase of 362,902 new infections. In the last 24-hours, the number of Covid-related deaths increased by 3,285. The surge has pushed the death toll over 201,000. →
Initial requests to pay for sick days hit a rubber wall. Then, last week, the Ontario government hinted that it would implement some sort of economic support. “It will be the best program in all of North America, no one excluded,” Premier Ford promised gloatingly. Yesterday, however, the government pulled the brakes: →
TORONTO – April 27, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,192,427 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 4,509 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 24,066 total deaths, 42 more than on Monday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,084,029. →
TORONTO – Minimum requirements for receiving the Covid-19 vaccine are being lowered in Ontario hotspots. This was announced by the provincial minister of health Christine Elliott, confirming the news that she had been in the air for a few days now: the goal is to give a turning point to the vaccination campaign of the province, managing to reach another slice of the population that wants to vaccinate against Covid-19. →
