“China eats weird animals disease”

Ontario is reporting 4,094 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 52,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 1,191 new cases in Toronto, 1,014 in Peel, 406 in York Region, 226 in Niagara and 199 in Durham.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) April 24, 2021

COVID-19: Public Health Ontario confirms 36 cases of B.1.617 variant now in province

Public Health Ontario (PHO) has confirmed 36 B.1.617 variant cases, the so-called “double mutant” variant of COVID-19 first detected in India, have been confirmed across the province.

In a statement to Global News Friday evening, the agency said six cases were detected through its genomics surveillance program.

As usual Trudeau acted too late.

More COVID-19 patients dying at home, Ontario coroner says

At least 25 people have died in their homes rather than in hospitals or nursing homes since April 1, Dr. Dirk Huyer told CBC News Friday. There could be more cases that his office is unaware of, he added.

The new reality is a deviation from earlier waves of the pandemic, when most COVID-19 deaths took place in nursing homes and hospitals. It goes to show how dangerous the current caseload is in Ontario, Huyer said.

He said he was particularly troubled that some of the people who’ve died at home were in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

Didn’t a couple of MASH units get set up to handle the overflow?

Ontario is reporting 4,505 cases of #COVID19 and over 56,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 1,257 new cases in Toronto, 1,232 in Peel, 412 in York Region, 247 in Ottawa and 224 in Durham.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) April 23, 2021

DOUBLE-DOUBLE MUTANT: Indian researchers identify new strain of mutated B.1.617

Just two weeks after Indian researchers identified the new ‘double-mutant’ B.1.617 COVID-19 strain, a consortium of scientists in that country have uncovered a new mutation that shows an even stronger resistance to antibodies.

Dubbed B.1.618, the new variant was found in samples taken in West Bengal, the easternmost state in India that shares a border with Bangladesh and home to Kolkata, the nation’s seventh-most populous city.

‘More people are catching on’: Travellers using U.S.-Canada land border to avoid quarantine hotels

Greg Peacock walked across the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ont., and back into Canada with his three puppies in hand, pausing to take some selfies, but he didn’t cross here for the view.

He chose this particular point of entry from the United States to avoid the mandatory three-day stay at a quarantine hotel that applies to air travellers entering Canada.

“I don’t want to spend three days or whatever it is locked up at a hotel when I’m back in Toronto to do work,” he said.