The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
1:45 p.m.
Nova Scotia is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 related to travel outside Atlantic Canada.
Health officials are also saying that a previously reported case involves the U.K. variant of the virus.
The person infected with the variant had travelled outside Canada.
Nova Scotia has 23 active reported cases — and the number of mutations now stands at 18 U.K. variant cases and 10 South African variant cases.
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1:25 p.m.
Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting one new case of COVID-19 today.
Health officials say the case involves a woman in her 40s.
The province is also reporting two more recoveries, bringing the number of active reported infections to three.
Newfoundland and Labrador has reported a total of 1,019 COVID-19 cases.
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11:20 a.m.
Ontario’s premier says new public health measures might be announced tomorrow.
Doug Ford says residents shouldn’t gather over the Easter weekend as the third wave of infections sends more people to Ontario hospitals.
Data from Critical Care Services Ontario says there are more critically ill COVID-19 patients in intensive care units than at any point in the pandemic.
A daily report counted 421 patients as of midnight.
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11:15 a.m.
Quebec is reporting 1,025 new cases of COVID-19 today and nine more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus.
Health officials say hospitalizations dropped by two, to 485, and 120 people were in intensive care, a drop of six.
The province says over 42,000 vaccine doses were administered in the past 24 hours, for a total of 1,349,326.
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11:10 a.m.
Pfizer Canada says it will be asking Health Canada to amend the authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine to extend to children between 12 and 15 years old.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has already been approved for people as young as 16.
The initial clinical trials didn’t include younger adolescents, but a follow-up trial in 2,260 kids 12 to 15 in the U.S. has been running since the fall.
The company released preliminary data from that trial Wednesday, saying none of the kids who got the vaccine developed a COVID-19 infection, compared to 18 infections among the kids who were given a placebo.
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10:40 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 2,333 new cases of COVID-19 and 15 more deaths linked to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 785 new cases in Toronto, 433 in Peel Region, and 222 in York Region.
She also says there are 153 new cases in Hamilton, 124 in Ottawa and 120 in Durham Region.
Nearly 90,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered in Ontario since Tuesday’s report.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 31, 2021.
The Canadian Press
