April 14, 2021 · 0 Comments
By ROB PAUL
Initiative Reporter
On April 14, at Brampton City Hall, Mayor Patrick Brown was joined by Caledon Mayor Allan Thompson and Peel Region Medical Officer of Health Dr. Lawrence Loh to provide an update on the COVID-19 situation in Peel as well as the need for more vaccines.
With growing numbers in the Peel Region, Brown and Thompson talked about the need to designate the entire region as a hotspot to allow for more people to get vaccinated sooner.
“I’ve been working urgently with (Mayor Thompson) on [highlighting] the urgency of vaccinating our essential workplaces,” said Brown. “I would note that there are so many commonalities and similarities between Caledon and Brampton. Our factory settings bleed into each other, you look at Amazon plants in Caledon and Brampton, some of the people who work at the factories in Caledon come from Brampton and we’ve been working
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Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Monday, March 15, 2021:
There have been 318,106 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,747 (or 0.6 per cent) from the previous day. Public Health Ontario says Sunday’s count was higher due to data catch-up. There are 298,570 people recovered from the virus while 7,153 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 11,755,109 of which 18,494 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 909,157. The country has 22,463 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, one in Nunavut, 1,397 in British Columbia, 1,946 in Alberta, 407 in Saskatchewan, 917 in Manitoba, 7,153 in Ontario, 10,540 in Quebec, 30 in New Brunswick, six in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
Toronto and Peel want lockdown orders extended for at least two extra weeks
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The medical officers of health for both Toronto and Peel have officially joined forces to request an extension of all current lockdown orders in their respective regions from the provincial government.
Toronto Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa announced the news in a sobering address about the city s COVID-19 situation on Wednesday afternoon, noting: I have never been as worried about the future as I am today.