Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Tuesday, December 15, 2020:
There have been 142,121 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,940 (or 1.4 per cent) from the previous day. There are 121,563 people recovered from the virus while 3,972 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 7,019,734 of which 32,045 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 468,862. The country has 13,553 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, 647 in British Columbia, 733 in Alberta, 91 in Saskatchewan, 499 in Manitoba, 3,972 in Ontario, 7,533 in Quebec, eight in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.