The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
11:36 a.m.: Ontario reported 178 new cases of COVID-19 and six new deaths related to the virus on Sunday.
The total number of cases now stands at 34,654, which includes 30,107 cases marked as resolved and 2,658 deaths.
New cases of the virus outpaced the number of resolved cases for the first time in recent days.
The number of people in hospital for the virus dropped significantly.
The number of people in intensive care also continued to drop, although there was a slight increase in the number of people using a ventilator.
The Ministry of Health says it was able to complete more than 28,000 tests for the novel coronavirus yesterday.
10:35 a.m.: As the Windsor-Essex region partially entered Stage 2 of the province’s reopening plan this week, political leaders, health officials and farmers in the area expressed anxiety about efforts to contain COVID-19 outbreaks in the region’s sprawling greenhouses ahead of a possible second wave of the virus this fall.
The southwestern Ontario region became a hot spot for the virus this month, as a spike in cases among migrant workers led to hundreds of positive cases and two deaths.
The outbreaks also prompted the province to reopen only part of the region this week, leaving the towns of Leamington and Kingsville, Ont., behind as Windsor and other communities reopened further.
10:30 a.m.: For the first time in its decades-long history, Toronto’s Pride parade will be held online.
At noon Sunday, Pride Toronto will kick off its “virtual parade,” with the livestreamed festivities scheduled to last an hour and a half.
The parade’s start time was moved so that it wouldn’t overlap with a “teach-in” taking place Sunday at Nathan Phillips Square beginning at 2 p.m., organized by the No Pride in Policing Coalition, a group of “queer and trans people (supporting) all the demands that Black Lives Matter Toronto raised at the 2016 Pride Toronto parade,” according to the event’s Facebook description.
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9:50 a.m.: Russia has recorded 6,791 new cases in the past day.
The national coronavirus task force said Sunday that the total number of cases rose to 634,437.
It said 104 people died of the virus over the past day, bringing the total dead to 9.073.
Russia has the third-highest coronavirus infection case count in the world. But it has reported far fewer deaths than many countries with smaller infection case counts, leading to speculation that figures are manipulated which Russian officials vehemently deny.
8:53 a.m.: The Taiwanese capital held its annual LGBT pride parade on Sunday, making it one of the few places in the world to proceed with such an event in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
The parade in Taipei has drawn tens of thousands of people in the past, but participant numbers Sunday were reduced by both virus concerns and heavy rain.
Still, those who did take part said it was a testament both to Taiwan’s ability to contain the pandemic and its commitment to rights for people of all sexual orientations.
Taiwan is the only place in Asia where same-sex marriage is legal, and its liberal political system has long promoted human rights, free speech and freedom of assembly.
American student Loren Couse, 28, said Taipei’s ability to hold the parade was “really impressive.”
“I think Taiwan has done a really good job so far, and I am really proud of living here, not only because it’s so open to people like myself, the gay community, but also because I think it’s such an example for the world and how to handle the pandemic so far,” Couse said.
7:32 a.m.: When Toronto Public Health released its map of neighbourhoods hardest hit by COVID-19, for people in the city’s northwest it felt like déjà vu.
It looked strikingly similar to the map showing where chronic diseases like diabetes are highest. It mirrored a 2014 report highlighting Toronto neighbourhoods facing the biggest social and economic disadvantages. It might as well have been any number of maps showing some of the city’s highest concentrations of poverty in highrises or lowest post-secondary education.
7:30 a.m.: Confirmed coronavirus infections have surpassed the 10-million mark worldwide.
A tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University registered the grim milestone Sunday, after India and Russia added thousands of new cases. The United States has confirmed more than 2.5 million infections, the most in the world.
Globally, the Hopkins tally has reported nearly 500,000 deaths.
While Hopkins reports only confirmed coronavirus cases, experts believe the true number of people who have been infected could be as much as 10 times that figure, given that so many people can’t get tested or may have the virus without showing any symptoms.
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4 a.m.: The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on June 28, 2020:
There are 103,032 confirmed cases in Canada.
-Quebec: 55,079 confirmed (including 5,448 deaths, 23,786 resolved)
-Ontario: 34,476 confirmed (including 2,652 deaths, 29,754 resolved)
-Alberta: 7,957 confirmed (including 154 deaths, 7,283 resolved)
-British Columbia: 2,878 confirmed (including 174 deaths, 2,545 resolved)
-Nova Scotia: 1,061 confirmed (including 63 deaths, 998 resolved)
-Saskatchewan: 777 confirmed (including 13 deaths, 661 resolved)
-Manitoba: 311 confirmed (including 7 deaths, 300 resolved), 11 presumptive
-Newfoundland and Labrador: 261 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 258 resolved)
-New Brunswick: 165 confirmed (including 2 deaths, 154 resolved)
-Prince Edward Island: 27 confirmed (including 27 resolved)
-Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed (including 13 resolved)
-Yukon: 11 confirmed (including 11 resolved)
-Northwest Territories: 5 confirmed (including 5 resolved)
-Nunavut: No confirmed cases
Total: 103,032 (11 presumptive, 103,021 confirmed including 8,516 deaths, 65,795 resolved)
Saturday 5 p.m.: Ontario’s regional public health units are reporting a total of 36,468 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 as of 5 p.m. Saturday, including 2,701 deaths, up by a total of 163 new cases since Friday evening.
As has been the case in recent days, the growth was concentrated in a handful of health units; only Toronto (62 cases), Peel Region (59) and Windsor-Essex (20) reported new infections in the double digits.
Meanwhile, Toronto was responsible for all nine fatal cases reported Saturday. The daily rate of deaths has fallen sharply in the province since peaking in early May, when the health units reported as many as 94 in a single day.
Earlier Saturday, the province reported that 252 patients are now hospitalized with COVID-19, including 54 in intensive care of whom 35 are on a ventilator. All three totals are near the lowest the province has reported in data that goes back to early April.
The province says its data is accurate to 4 p.m. the previous day. The province also cautions its latest count of total deaths — 2,652 — may be incomplete or out of date due to delays in the reporting system, saying that in the event of a discrepancy, “data reported by (the health units) should be considered the most up to date.”
The Star’s count includes some patients reported as “probable” COVID-19 cases, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or travel history that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received a positive lab test.
Source: – Toronto Star
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