The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there’s still no firm date for when Johnson & Johnson will send its COVID-19 vaccine to Canada.
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Health Canada approved the vaccine for use last week but the company has reported production delays could threaten delivery dates in the European Union.
Trudeau says he is aware of those issues and as soon as Canada’s dates are confirmed, the government will share that information.
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11:55 a.m.
Prince Edward Island is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 today.
Chief medical officer of health Dr. Heather Morrison says a travel-related case from last week has been confirmed to involve the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the United Kingdom.
Morrison says officials have identified four cases of the B.1.1.7 mutation on the Island.
There are now 28 active reported cases of COVID-19 in P.E.I.
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11:45 a.m.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam are marking Thursday’s one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the spread of the novel coronavirus a pandemic.
Tam says it is time for remembering the lives lost, but it is also clear the work is not done.
She says Canadians must commit to sustaining their efforts until the crisis of COVID-19 is behind us.
Trudeau is calling on all Canadians to use the newly created day of remembrance for those who died during the pandemic to remember and salute all who have sacrificed so much during the last year.
Over 22,000 Canadians have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began and there has been a total of nearly 895,000 cases in Canada.
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11 a.m.
Quebec is reporting 650 new cases of COVID-19 today and 12 more deaths, including four within the past 24 hours.
Health officials say hospitalizations dropped by 14, to 576, and 110 people were in intensive care, a rise of two.
Officials say 16,357 doses of vaccine were administered Monday for a total of 581,028.
Quebec has reported 293,860 COVID-19 infections and 10,493 deaths linked to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
The province has 6,765 active reported cases of COVID-19.
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10:40 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 1,185 new cases of COVID-19 in the province and six more deaths linked to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says that 343 of those new cases are in Toronto, 235 are in Peel Region, and 105 are in York Region.
More than 31,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered in Ontario since Monday’s report.
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10:35 a.m.
Nova Scotia is reporting five new cases of COVID-19 today involving contacts of previously reported infections.
Health officials say three new cases were identified in the health region including Halifax and the other two were reported in the western health region.
Officials are also reporting five new cases of novel coronavirus mutations, three of which involve the variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom and two involving the mutation first detected in South Africa.
They say there is no sign of community spread involving variants in the province.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 9, 2021.
