Canada awaits the arrival this week of 1.9-million doses of vaccine as the country reported nearly seven-thousand new confirmed COVID-19 cases Sunday.
Ontario had the most new cases in the country with just under four-thousand. It also recorded 24 new deaths linked to the virus. Most of the cases remain in the long-time hot spots of Toronto and Peel Region. The province says two-thousand-126 COVID-19 patients are currently in hospital. Health officials say 851 are in intensive care and 597 are on ventilators. While the number of patients in Ontario I-C-Us increased by 18 between Saturday and Sunday, hospitalizations actually declined by 151 over the same period.
Next was Alberta at over 14-hundred new infections, and Quebec at about one-thousand. No new COVID cases were reported in Yukon or Northwest Territories. But seven new infections were reported in Nunavut which now has 47 active cases, most of them in Iqaluit.
