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- Ontario reports 5,839 new cases of COVID-19 over 2 days.
- The UK is recording record new cases as the hospital receives doses of the newly approved vaccine.
- Funeral homes in Southern California are running out of space as deaths rise.
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India tested its COVID-19 vaccine delivery system with a nationwide trial on Saturday, as it prepares to implement an inoculation program to stop the coronavirus pandemic.
The trial included data entry into an online platform to monitor vaccine delivery, along with cold storage testing and transportation arrangements for the vaccine, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
The massive exercise was followed by India’s drug regulator recommending the emergency use approval of two vaccines for COVID-19: one developed by the University of Oxford and UK-based drug maker AstraZeneca, and another. by the Indian manufacturer Bharat Biotech.
Both vaccines will now have to await final approval from the Indian regulator.
SEE | In the fight to mass produce a COVID-19 vaccine:
A major vaccine manufacturer in India struggling to mass produce the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in order to reach the arms of billions opened its doors to CBC News. 3:01
The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturing company, has been contracted by AstraZeneca to produce 1 billion doses for developing countries, including India. On Wednesday, Britain became the first to approve the shot.
The vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech is based on an inactivated form of the coronavirus. It is being done in collaboration with Indian government agencies. The first clinical studies showed that the vaccine has no serious side effects and produces antibodies against COVID-19. The company said in November that it was starting late clinical trials.
The government plans to inoculate 300 million people in the first phase of the vaccination program, which will include frontline and healthcare workers, police and military, and people with comorbidities who are over 50 years old.
The government is expected to initially rely on the vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India, which does not require the ultra-cold storage facilities that others require. Instead, it can be stored in refrigerators. This makes him a feasible candidate not only for India but also for other developing nations.
Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan reviewed the preparation for the vaccination campaign at a government hospital in New Delhi on Saturday and urged the public not to heed the anti-vaccine rumors.
“We are not going to compromise any protocol before approving a vaccine,” he told reporters.
Pooja Moriya, a health worker from the capital who will be one of the first to be inoculated, said hospital staff have had several meetings about the vaccine and how it works. “Our elderly people have told us not to be afraid at all,” Moriya said.
India has confirmed more than 10.3 million cases of coronavirus, second in the world behind the US More than 149,000 people have died from the virus in India.
What’s happening in canada
As of 2:45 p.m. ET on Saturday, Canada’s COVID-19 case count was 590,280, with 79,483 of those cases considered active. The CBC News death count was 15,714.
In British columbia, families are demanding answers after 38 residents of the Little Mountain Place long-term care home in Vancouver died from COVID-19.
Alberta saw an estimated 900 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, according to the province’s medical director of health. Dr. Deena Hinshaw said on Twitter Saturday that Alberta’s hospitalization and ICU totals remained stable and that no additional deaths were reported.
Saskatchewan registered 495 new cases and three more deaths.
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Ontario has set records for new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions as the fallout from the Christmas gatherings begin to set in and the province still has a few weeks before the numbers begin to decline. 3:31
Manitoba announced 327 new cases and 11 deaths in the last two days.
Ontario reported a two-day total of 5,839 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday after the provincial Health Ministry did not release daily figures on January 1. The province recorded 2,476 cases on Friday and a new one-day high of 3,363 cases on Saturday.
In Quebec, three doctors and three other employees in the emergency room of the Hospital Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval tested positive, according to the regional board of health. A union representing hospital staff is concerned about the ability of hospital staff to deal with a possible influx of patients in the new year.
The province will release its first COVID-19 update of 2021 on Sunday.
New Scotland announced 13 new cases, including five cases involving a Dartmouth school. The province says all the new cases are close contacts of previously reported cases or linked to travel outside of Atlantic Canada.
Newfoundland and LabradorThe number of active cases dropped to 11 after the province reported no new cases and six recoveries on Saturday.
New Brunswick recorded 10 new infections.
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The provinces are behind the goals of bringing the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of Canadians, and experts say logistical problems are largely to blame, but they are hopeful that the arrival of the Moderna vaccine will help. speed things up. 3:22
In Prince edward island, the trial clinics are open in Charlottetown and Summerside after the clinics closed on New Years Day.
Yukon added four new cases, which they say are “close or family contacts” of a traveler outside the territory.
At Northwest Territories, a nonresident worker in Yellowknife tested positive. The territory says the individual traveled to Yellowknife by air, is asymptomatic and “safely isolated” in the city.
Here’s a look at what’s happening with COVID-19 across the country:
What’s happening in the world
As of Saturday, more than 84.2 million COVID-19 cases had been reported worldwide with more than 47.4 million cases considered recovered or resolved, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracking tool. The global death toll was more than 1.8 million.
In Europe, the UK has recorded a record 57,725 daily cases of coronavirus, as Britain’s hospitals have started receiving batches of the coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, which was approved by British regulators this week. week.
SEE | The first variant of the virus reported in the UK spreads faster than the original strain:
A new study from Imperial College London has found that the UK variant of the coronavirus is much more transmissible than the original strain. 2:17
In AsiaSouth Korea is extending strict distancing rules for two more weeks as authorities seek to suppress a viral resurgence, while confirming its first case of an apparently more contagious variant of coronavirus detected in South Africa.
At Americas, funeral homes in Southern California are turning away bereaved families because they are running out of room for bodies. Los Angeles County has exceeded 10,000 deaths from COVID-19.
In Africa, Chad has closed its capital, N’djamena, for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic and declared a curfew from dusk to dawn due to rising infections.
