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.
The Toronto skyline is rapidly changing. Mass timber structures are springing up among the concrete and steel jungle. The newest addition to Toronto’s waterfront is underway at George Brown College, the site of Ontario’s tallest mass timber structure.
Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of December 16, 2021, at 4:40 pm EST.
On Thursday, health officials in Poland logged 22,097 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 3.9 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 86.1% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 592 Covid-related deaths for a total of 90,306 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.
TORONTO – There are active cases of Covid-19 in nearly a quarter of Ontario’s schools. The situation is also destined to worsen as the number of infections, due to the Omicron variant, continues to grow at an exponential rate. →
TORONTO – Skyrocketing infections and more than thirty thousand deaths from Covid-19 throughout Canada since the beginning of the pandemic: these are the sad data of today, negative on all fronts. Let’s start with Ontario, which reported the highest daily count of new cases in seven months. The province has in fact registered 2,421 new infections (53% of which of the Omicron variant), with an impressive increase compared to 1,808 new cases. Earlier this week, 1,476 new cases had been registered on Monday, 1,536 on Tuesday and 1,429 on Wednesday. →
With the largest vaccination campaign underway, the province has administered more than 24.8 million doses into the arms of Ontarians. According to data last updated on December 16, numbers released by the Ministry of Health show health officials administered 137,803 vaccine doses on Wednesday, up from 127,613 doses the day prior.
This graph represents Ontario’s progress thus far in the vaccination campaign (see above). The dark blue bar represents the population of Ontario, an estimated 14.5 million. Health officials suggest the critical threshold for vaccination is now estimated to be at least 90% of the population. That translates to roughly 13,050,000 people that would need to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19.
So far, 12,047,096 people have received at least one or both shots of the vaccine, 83.1% of the entire population (green segment).
A total of 11,345,168 people are fully inoculated against the virus. That number represents about 78.2% of the Ontario population, (yellow segment).
