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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of August 17, 2021, at 5:45pm EST.
On Tuesday, health officials in the UK logged 26,852 new infections pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 6.3 million. Of the cumulative total, 77.3% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, Covid-related deaths increased by 170, bringing the total number of fatalities to 131,149. →
TORONTO – Another step backwards and new directives for vaccines. After last week hinted that Ontario in ten days at most would reach such a level of vaccinations that it would allow it to loosen all remaining restrictions, today the Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore (in the pic, credit: Twitter, AwesomeKingston), said that at the moment this project is suspended. →
TORONTO – The Covid “swing” does not stop: after more than 500 infections every 24 hours in the last few days, Ontario recorded “only” 348 new cases of coronavirus today, with a significant decrease compared to 526 on Monday and 511 on Sunday . It is Ontario’s first day of sub-500 cases since August 11, when 324 new cases were detected. But there are ten deaths (zero on Monday), even if six were revealed through an ongoing review of deaths during the pandemic. →
Toronto-Danforth (formerly Broadview-Greenwood) electoral district is another key riding in the GTA that may impact the outcome of the election. Roughly 15 km east of Davenport, the riding could prove to be a tough competition between the Liberal and NDP parties. →
With the largest vaccination campaign underway, the province has administered more than 20.2 million doses into the arms of Ontarians. On August 17, numbers released by the Ministry of Health show health officials administered 40,626 vaccine doses on day, Tuesday, up from 26,033 doses the day prior.
