Teens get vaccines in Canadian provinces

Toronto, May 25: As Canada reported partially immunizing 50 percent of residents against COVID-19, more provinces stepped up efforts to add younger age groups to be vaccinated. These provinces have already expanded vaccine eligibility to those 12 and over, including Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. Even though, nationally, new COVID-19 cases continued to trend below the third-wave peaks reported in mid-April, although case counts remained high in several provinces. Continue reading

কানাডার প্রদেশসমূহে কিশোরদের টিকায়ন শুরু

টরন্টো, মে ২৫: কানাডা তার অর্ধেক জনগোষ্ঠিকে আংশিক টিকায়ন সম্পন্ন করতেই বিভিন্ন প্রদেশে কিশোর-কিশোরীদের টিক্রাদানে তৎপর হয়েছে। এতে নিউফাউন্ডল্যান্ড ও লাব্রাডোর, সাসকাচুয়ান, ম্যানিটোবা এবং আলবার্টা প্রদেশে ১২ বা ততোর্ধ্ব বয়সীদের টিকায়ন শুরু করেছে। যদিও দেশব্যাপি মধ্য এপ্রিল পর্যন্ত মহামারির তৃতীয় ঢেউ স্তিমিত হলেও বেশ কিছু প্রদেশে সেটির গতিপ্রবাহ এখনও ঊর্ধ্বমুখী। এরই মাঝে অন্টারিও প্রদেশে রোববার থেকে ১২ বা ততোর্ধ্ব বয়সীদের ক্ষেত্রে টিকায়নের বুকিং চালু হয়েছে। Continue reading

Covid, províncias do Canadá entre restrições e relaxamento

Por Mariella Policheni  — Video: Luis Aparicio                     

O Canadá é um país a duas velocidades durante esta pandemia da Covid: enquanto que em algumas províncias há evidências tímidas de alívio das restrições, em outras, estão a ser implementadas restrições adicionais para conter a propagação do vírus.

O Ontário, como o premier Doug Ford anunciou na passada quinta-feira, vai reabrir em três etapas, em intervalos de 21 dias: a fase um está prevista para começar a 14 de junho. Continue reading

Vacinação: menores de 12 anos ou mais não precisam do consentimento dos pais

Por Priscilla Pajdo — Video: Luis Aparicio

Os Ontarianos estão ansiosos para que a vida volte ao normal. Alguns desfrutaram do tempo quente e durante o fim de semana prolongado do Victoria Day, celebraram o início não oficial do verão. Para milhares de outras pessoas, incluindo crianças de apenas 12 anos, isso significou aguardar do lado de fora das clínicas de vacinação para tomar a vacina. Continue reading

Covid, provinciile între restricții și relaxare

Article by Mariella Policheni – Translation and Video by Cristiana Petrescu

TORONTO – Canada este o țară in două viteze în perioada pandemiei cauzate de Covid: în timp ce în unele provincii încep teste timide de relaxare a restricțiilor, în altele sunt puse în aplicare restricții suplimentare pentru a stopa răspândirea virusului. Continue reading

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 May 25, 2021 at 6:15pm EST.

On Tuesday, Covid-related deaths in the Philippines surpassed 20,000 after the Department of Health reported an increase of 36 deaths in the last 24-hours. The country’s health officials registered a single-day increase of 3,972 new infections bringing the total caseload to 1,188,672 since the start of the pandemic. Of that cumulative total, 94.3% are considered recovered.

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