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Good evening, here are the coronavirus updates you need to know tonight.
Top headlines:
The majority of Canadians are not entitled to paid sick leave. Amid the pandemic, more businesses are warming to this benefit.
In Canada, there have been at least
481,630cases reported. In the last week
46,300 new cases were announced,
2 per cent more than the previous week.
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Graham Barron is an architect at Lyons Architecture living with his family in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2019, we moved our family of four from Vancouver to the city of Melbourne – and just a year later, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. To tackle the first wave, the Australian government closed its borders to all but returning citizens and permanent residents, and put them through a 14-day hotel quarantine. State premiers, guided by public health officials, imposed lockdowns. And by the time the second wave struck, we in Victoria were confined to our house in a country we barely knew, during one of the world’s longest and strictest coronavirus restrictions.
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Good evening, let’s start with today’s top coronavirus stories:
Will vaccines stop the spread of COVID-19? How long will protection last? Success may delay answers
Scientists and clinicians studying the first COVID-19 vaccine to win approval in Canada, the United States and Britain say the high efficacy it has shown may come with a downside: It may be harder to find out how long the immunity it provides will endure.