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Canada’s chief public health officer says the health-care system is under increasing strain with a more than 20 per cent increase in COVID-19-related hospitalizations and intensive care unit patients over a one-week stretch.
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is now the only major junior league in the country that is still trying to complete its playoffs for this season. The effort continues despite rising cases of COVID-19 in Quebec and continuing outbreaks of the disease in New Brunswick.
Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients.
Ontario has detected 36 cases of the B1617 COVID-19 variant first identified in India, the province’s public health agency says.