Hastings Prince Edward Public Health reported three more COVID-19 cases Friday with 13 active cases throughout the region. RON LAVOIE PHOTOjpg, BI
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More mobility by Ontarians within cities and communities following the lifting of lockdowns is driving a new increase in COVID-19 cases as variants become more the dominant spread of the virus, say members of Ontario’s Science Advisory Table.
In a presentation of new computer modelling, the group said worst-case forecasts show up to 8,000 daily cases by April 2 if variants continue higher transmissibility with lower-risk forecasts predicting 1,650 cases a day.
Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the science table, said in a briefing Thursday the modelling forecasts are heavily dependent on further health measures and variants.
And while vaccines appear to be working in long-term care homes, flattening the curve has stalled given daily case numbers continue to hover around 1,000 cases per day, he said.
Brown said the province has seen only one COVID-19 death of a resident in a long-term care home in the last six days and the number of homes reporting outbreaks of the 626 in Ontario is down to 25.
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“Vaccination has really paid off in long-term care homes,” Brown said.
“But, mobility is starting to increase again. This is really after a flat period of mobility following the winter holiday. It’s this mobility as people encounter each other, as people move around and spread the disease with each other, which is particularly problematic for the spread of COVID-19,” Brown said.
“We are seeing new cases. An important thing to consider through is, what is the role of the new variants in this?”
Brown showed two graphs which illustrated new variant-based cases such As B 1.1.7. increasing while the early first strains of the virus from Wuhan declining in the second wave throughout the province.
“The red is the new variants concern, the variants that were originally identified in the United Kingdom, South Africa or in Brazil. You can see at the same time that as the earlier variants are decreasing, the new variants are increasing,” he said.
Brown likened the dual scenarios to “two pandemics playing out, one with the early variants under control and one with the new variants not under control.”
Ontario reported 1,371 daily cases of COVID-19 Friday.
The province also recorded another 18 deaths bringing the total dead in Ontario due to the virus to 7,127 people in the last year.
The lion’s share of the cases remains in the GTA with Toronto reporting 371 cases, Peel Region logging 225 cases and York Region reporting 111 cases.
Ontario reported a total of 314,891 cases of which 296,252 were reported as resolved.
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There were 676 hospitalizations in Ontario while 282 patients were in intensive care units and 189 people were on a ventilator.
In Hastings and Prince Edward region, health officials logged three new cases and 13 active cases Friday.
There were 415 people listed as recovered.
The health unit said 433 cases of the virus have been recorded in the community since the pandemic began.
No persons were listed in hospital, nor in the intensive care unit or on a ventilator.
There is one outbreak listed in the region.
The local death toll from the virus stands at six.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health said 11,500 vaccines have been administered in the region.
In Canada, a total of 899,757 cases have been recorded of which 846,714 are listed as recovered.
Nationally, there were 30,679 cases listed as active and 22,371 deaths.
Globally, total cases of COVID-19 stood at 118.7 million cases with 2.63 million deaths reported, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Resource Centre.
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Huawei announced the Pura 70 series today, and once again offered no details regarding the chipsets. However, early benchrmarks confirmed they feature a new platform called Kirin 9010, which has an 8-core CPU, identified by apps as 12-core unit due to hyperthreading.
Hyperthreading is nothing new in the chipset industry, as the Taishan cores have been supporting the technology for some time; it has been part of the Kirin 9000s and now is a part of the 9010 as well.
First Geekbench results revealed a minor improvement in raw performance, coming from slightly faster core speeds. The numbers show improvement single digit percentage improvements in both single core and multi core tests.
Kirin 9010 vs Kirin 9000S on Geekbench
The actual octa-core combination of Kirin 9010 is as follows: one 2.30 GHz Taishan Big, three 2.18 GHz Taishan Mid and four 1.55 GHz Cortex-A510. The GPU remains Maleoon 910 at 750 MHz.
“You can save the world, or you can help punish it for its sins.” That’s the crux of Warhorse Studio’s “behemoth” of a sequel to 2018’s Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The sequel, which is slated for release later this year on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PS5 will be bigger, more fun, filled with adventure and more diverse thanks to its setting in the 15th century Bohemian city of Kuttenberg a city that creative director Daniel Vavra says is “really big, it’s even too big in my opinion.”
New weapons like the crossbow and primitive firearms will also make their debut in the continued story of the squire Henry (Tom McKay) and the knight he accompanies, Hans Capon (Luke Dale) as they leave the country behind.
Here’s the trailer, which features gameplay, cinematics and discussion from the actors and developers. Be sure to watch until the end to see the bit about the music. A full choir and orchestra in a beautiful Eastern European cathedral? Just gorgeous.
“What we are making now is what it was supposed to be in the beginning, but we weren’t able to do it because we didn’t have enough resources and experiences and all that stuff,” Vavra says in the video. “We’ve proven the concept works, so now we can take it to another level, which is what we always wanted.”
“This is a behemoth of a game in comparison to the first. In my opinion I think it’s got so much more energy and pace and adventure and action and fun and trial and tribulation and everything you can want,” McKay says in the video.
The game will be “much bigger in scope” with a more in-depth story and a world roughly twice the size of the first. The story has evolved from a small-scale conflict to one about “the problem with kings,” Vavra says.
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Kingdom Come Deliverance II, like the first game, is not a fantasy RPG like Skyrim or The Witcher, but one that attempts to create a historically accurate world down to the weapons, costumes, locations and people. There are no magicians or dragons or elves here—but there will be plenty of adventure, exploration and knight errantry.
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