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Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Tuesday, January 26, 2021:
There have been 256,960 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,958 (or 0.8 per cent) from the previous day. There are 227,494 people recovered from the virus while 5,846 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 9,344,959 of which 14,991 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 753,011. The country has 19,238 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, one in Nunavut, 1,154 in British Columbia, 1,574 in Alberta, 254 in Saskatchewan, 804 in Manitoba, 5,846 in Ontario, 9,521 in Quebec, 14 in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.