ont. sees 321 new covid cases; moderna to make vaccine in canada
the new figures raise ontario’s total number of covid cases since january 2020 to 553,125 and its death toll to 9,409.
aug 10 2021
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people register for the covid-19 vaccination at montreal's palais des congrès.
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by: bruce deachman
ontario reported 321 new covid-19 cases on tuesday, and two new deaths.
toronto, with 96 new cases, peel and hamilton, with 31 apiece, and york, with 30, were the province’s worst-hit regions.
on twitter, health minister christine elliott noted that 267 of the new patients, or about 83 per cent, were unvaccinated.
there were eight new confirmed cases in ottawa, according to public health ontario, bringing the city’s total to 27,876 since the pandemic’s start. due to different data-collection times, those figures may not match those issued later in the day by ottawa public health.
in other health units in the region, the eastern ontario health unit (which includes cornwall and hawkesbury) saw its confirmed case numbers go up by eight. leeds, grenville and lanark reported one new case, while renfrew county had none. kingston saw its total case count drop by two.
the new figures raise ontario’s total number of covid cases since january 2020 to 553,125 and its death toll to 9,409. there are 11,903 active cases in the province.
meanwhile, there are 100 covid patients currently in ontario hospitals. there are 109 patients in icu with covid-related illnesses, 79 of them diagnosed with covid. there are 72 patients on ventilators with covid-related illnesses, 53 of them currently with covid.
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additionally, 48,278 vaccine doses were administered in the province in the 24-hour period ending monday evening, for a province-wide total of 19,950,437. a total of 9,381,122 ontarians have been fully vaccinated, an increase of 37,862 over the previous day’s total.
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the federal government on tuesday signed an agreement with u.s. drug manufacturer moderna, promising to build an mrna production plant in canada.
according to federal innovation minister francois-philippe champagne, some of the details of the deal, including the amount the government will contribute and the location and expected opening date of the plant, are still being negotiate
he and moderna ceo stephane bancel were scheduled to sign the agreement monday morning in montreal.
this is the second such deal the government has inked in recent months. in may, it said it would provide $199 million to resilience technologies in mississauga, about half the cost of expanding its plant there to make up to 640 million doses of mrna vaccine annually.
moderna was founded 11 years ago to research and produce messenger rna, or mrna, vaccines and therapeutics, and its covid-19 vaccine is its first product ever authorized for widespread use.
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the mrna vaccines, among the newest of vaccine technology, use rna, a single-stranded molecule that typically carries specific codes about various human genes and instruct the body to make certain types of cells. an mrna vaccine takes the code for parts of the virus that causes covid-19 and attaches it to rna which, when injected, carry a message to the human immune system that teaches it to fight off the virus.
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