TORONTO – June 29, 2021: Canada stood today at 1,414,594 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 817 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – today reached 26,267 total deaths, 37 more than Monday. →
We missed being able to dine outside, we missed coffee with friends, we missed the mall. But we also missed – and our uncultivated hairstyles bear witness to this – the hairdresser. From tomorrow, with Ontario entering Step 2, it will be possible to do all this and more. The long-awaited relaxation of some of the restrictions with reopening non-essential shops, albeit at 25% of capacity, bodes well after so many difficult months. →
Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of June 29, 2021 at 4:25pm EST.
On Tuesday, health officials in Spain logged 7,091 new infections, the highest single day increase since early May. The total number of confirmed positive cases approach 3.8 million. Of the cumulative total, 94.7% are considered recovered. Since yesterday, Covid-related deaths increased by 40, bringing the country’s total fatalities to 80,829.
Globally, over 181 million cases have confirmed positive for Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 166 million people have recovered. Fatalities attributable to Covid-19 now surpass 3.9 million worldwide.
Bangladesh has not updated the status of Covid-19 cases since June 28, 2021.
TORONTO – Anthony Rota challenges Justin Trudeau. The battleground is the controversial story surrounding the dismissal of two virologists of Chinese origin from the National Microbiology Laboratory, a maximum-security laboratory in Winnipeg where lethal viruses such as Ebola are studied. This tug-of-war, which has been developing for several weeks, has gone a little undertrack but is likely to lead to a serious institutional crisis between the legislative and executive powers here in Canada in the near future. →
