Day: 21 December 2021

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 21, 2021, at 4:20 pm EST.

On Tuesday, health officials in the UK logged 90,629 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 11.5 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 85.5% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 172 Covid-related deaths for a total of 147,433 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

Omicron threat, risk of a new lockdown

TORONTO – The risk of a new lockdown is increasingly real in Ontario. The threat posed by the new Omicron variant has prompted the provincial government to adopt some restrictions that they had already seen during the first three waves of the pandemic, but the Canadian scientific community believes that these measures are too bland to hope to contain the increase in infections. 

3,453 Covid-cases in Ontario and another 11 deaths. Record of infections in Quebec

TORONTO – Another slight decline in infections, but many deaths: 11 in a single day, today, in Ontario, where 3,453 new infections were recorded, down from 3,784 on Monday and 4,177 on Sunday, but still clearly increase from 1,429 a week ago. In recent weeks, cases have steadily increased across the province where the Omicron variant of Covid-19 – which experts say has a doubling time of 2.9 days – now accounts for 88% of cases. 

Guido Cocomello ci parla di “So I married a mangiacake”

LOS ANGELES – Guido Cocomello, italo-canadese nato e cresciuto a Montreal, è un comico e attore cinematografico (lo si può vedere tra l’altro in “Being the Ricardos” di Aaron Sorkin, con Nicole Kidman, disponibile proprio da oggi su Prime Video). Il suo ultimo lavoro è un one-man show in lingua inglese, da lui interamente scritto e recitato: “So I married a mangiacake”… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>