Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Wednesday, January 6, 2021:
There have been 197,360 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 3,128 (or 1.6 per cent) from the previous day. There are 166,790 people recovered from the virus while 4,730 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 8,178,105 of which 39,805 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 618,646. The country has 16,233 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, one in Nunavut, 954 in British Columbia, 1,168 in Alberta, 165 in Saskatchewan, 695 in Manitoba, 4,730 in Ontario, 8,441 in Quebec, nine in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
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Cornwall saw another double-digit increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases when the Eastern Ontario Health Unit updated local information Wednesday afternoon.
There are 12 new cases within the city, part of an increase of 36 cases within the EOHU since Tuesday afternoon.
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Other additions saw four new cases in Clarence-Rockland, one in Alfred & Plantagenet, one in Hawkesbury, two in The Nation, two in Casselman, three in Russell, one in North Dundas, four in North Stormont, three in South Stormont, two in North Glengarry, and two in South Glengarry. The running total of confirmed cases within the EOHU sits at 1,766.