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The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
9:12 p.m.: An email from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to union head Tony Clark led to a balk in the drawn-out talks to start the pandemic-delayed season.
The executive committee of the players’ association was set to vote and reject Major League Baseball’s latest offer for a 60-game season on Sunday.
Players want 70 games and $275 million US more than teams are offering. They are worried that if a resurgence of COVID-19 causes the 2020 season to be cut short, the deal being negotiated would lock in innovations for 2021 and lessen the union’s bargaining power.
Among the items in the proposed deal for 2020 and 2021 are expanded playoffs, use of the designated hitter in games involving National League teams and allowing advertisements on uniforms. The 2020 only items include starting extra innings with runner on second and a discussion of whether to allow tie games after a specified total of innings plus player re-entry in extra innings.
8:01 p.m.: Iran’s health minister said on Sunday that the coronavirus outbreak in the country would last until 2022, the Isna news agency reported.
Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that according to official estimates, Iranians would “have to live with the coronavirus for another two years,” the report said.
After the number of new infections eased in May, Iranian authorities started to lift coronavirus-related restrictions. However, the fact that people have been taking hygiene and social distancing measures less seriously has led to a new rise in infections, authorities say.
More than 200,000 people have had or currently have the virus in Iran, with more than 9,500 having died as a result.
6 p.m.: As of 5 p.m. Sunday, Ontario’s public health units are reporting a total of 35,348 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 2,645 deaths, up a total of 160 new cases since Saturday night, according to the Star’s latest count.
In Toronto, the daily report of new cases jumped by 35 cases to 88, ending a three-day stretch of falling totals. Still, the average rate of new infections remains well down in the city. For the last seven days, Toronto has seen an average of 75 cases reported each day; that average peaked less than a month ago at 230 cases daily for on the seven days ending May 25.
Meanwhile, Toronto was once again the only health unit to report fatal cases Sunday, accounting for all five new reported deaths in the city. Thursday also saw no new fatal cases reported outside the city — something that hadn’t been seen since mid-March when the province’s death toll was in the single digits.
Earlier Sunday, the province reported that 286 patients are now hospitalized with COVID-19, including 86 in intensive care, of whom 59 are on a ventilator. All three totals are now near the lowest the province has reported in data that goes back to early April.
The province says its data is accurate to 4 p.m. the previous day. The province also cautions its latest count of total deaths — 2,606 — may be incomplete or out of date due to delays in the reporting system, saying that in the event of a discrepancy, “data reported by (the health units) should be considered the most up to date.”
The Star’s count includes some patients reported as “probable” COVID-19 cases, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or travel history that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received a positive lab test.
4:40 p.m.: Quebec reported nine COVID-19-linked deaths on Sunday, the lowest daily tally since late March.
Only six of Sunday’s deaths are new, with three others dating back before June 13, bringing the total to 5,417 deaths.
The province also reported 92 new confirmed cases of the virus, raising the total to 54,766.
There are 521 people in hospital, including 61 patients in intensive care.
The province is preparing to reopen several sectors and relax the rules for gatherings indoors on Monday, particularly impacting the Montreal area.
Restaurants will reopen in the greater Montreal and Joliette area while indoor gatherings of up to 10 people from three households will be permitted in these regions, like elsewhere in Quebec since last week.
Gyms, arenas, cinemas, concert venues and places of worship may reopen across the province with a maximum capacity of 50 people for indoor gatherings.
2:30 p.m.: Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China’s customs agency has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United States after coronavirus cases were confirmed among its employees.
A Tyson spokesman said Sunday that the plant in question is in Springdale, Arkansas.
On Friday, Tyson Foods announced the results of coronavirus testing at its facilities in Benton and Washington Counties and said that a majority of employees who ultimately tested positive for the virus didn’t show any symptoms. Of the 3,748 employees tested, 481 tested positive for COVID-19, and 455 were asymptomatic.
There have been several other COVID-19 outbreaks at Tyson plants around the United States, including in North Carolina, Nebraska, and Iowa.
11:30 a.m. : The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada. There are 101,286 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.
- Quebec: 54,766 confirmed (including 5,417 deaths, 23,322 resolved)
- Ontario: 33,476 confirmed (including 2,606 deaths, 28,719 resolved)
- Alberta: 7,673 confirmed (including 152 deaths, 6,996 resolved)
- British Columbia: 2,790 confirmed (including 168 deaths, 2,444 resolved)
- Nova Scotia: 1,061 confirmed (including 62 deaths, 998 resolved)
- Saskatchewan: 726 confirmed (including 13 deaths, 639 resolved)
- Manitoba: 302 confirmed (including seven deaths, 293 resolved), 11 presumptive
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 261 confirmed (including three deaths, 258 resolved)
- New Brunswick: 164 confirmed (including two deaths, 135 resolved)
- Prince Edward Island: 27 confirmed (including 27 resolved)
- Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed (including 13 resolved)
- Yukon: 11 confirmed (including 11 resolved)
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Sign Up Now- Northwest Territories: five confirmed (including five resolved)
- Nunavut: No confirmed cases
- Total: 101,286 (11 presumptive, 101,275 confirmed including 8,430 deaths, 63,860 resolved)
10:50 a.m. : Ontario drivers are being told to stay on the lookout for military vehicles on the roads this week as hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces members deployed to long-term-care facilities in the Greater Toronto Area start to head home.
Around 500 military members and their associated equipment were gathered at Canadian Forces Base Borden north of Toronto in early April to support the federal government’s response to COVID-19. Many of those troops were eventually deployed to seven long-term care homes hit hard by COVID-19.
7:50 a.m. : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel may have to renew its lockdown following a surge in coronavirus cases.
“‘We must flatten the curve now,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of Sunday’s weekly cabinet session. “If we don’t change our behaviour immediately, and begin to wear masks and keep a distance from each other, the lockdowns will return. None of us want that.” The number of cases has steadily risen, from less than 17,000 a month ago, after restrictions were significantly eased and many people ignored instructions to wear masks and maintain social distancing.
7:45 a.m.: Fairs and events in Toronto and around the country are suffering through one of the worst years in memory as measures remain in place to stem the spread of a disease that has killed more than 1,000 people in the city to date.
While rules have been relaxed around small gatherings, a ban on large gatherings remains in place.
Though some events have moved online, writes the Star’s Francine Kopun, organizers worry about the effects of not having cultural gatherings in the community.
7:33 a.m.: In the initial, frantic months of the pandemic, modern society was upended in the interest of saving lives. The economy was halted in a desperate bid to stop the spread, as hospitals scrambled to keep some of the sickest COVID-19 patients alive. So far, the disease has infected more than 100,000 people across Canada; roughly 8,400 have died.
The next phase carries its own set of challenges. As lockdowns ease and governments tentatively roll out their COVID-19 recovery plans, there are now thousands of survivors of the disease in Canada who are also in recovery.
7:15 a.m.: Spain’s national state of emergency has ended after three months of restrictions on movement to rein in its COVID-19 outbreak.
As of Sunday, 47 million Spaniards will be able to freely move around the entire country for the first time since the government declared a state of emergency on March 14. The lockdown measures have been rolled back gradually over recent weeks.
6:55 a.m.: South Korea has reported 48 new cases of COVID-19 as health authorities struggle to contain a resurgence that’s erasing some of the country’s hard-won gains against the virus.
Health authorities said 24 of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, which have been the centre of the country’s outbreak since late May.
Ten others were reported in the central city of Daejeon, indicating that the virus was beginning to spread more broadly, apparently as a result of increased public activity and complacency in social distancing.
Nearly 200 infections so far have been linked to employees at a door-to-door sales company in Seoul, which mostly hired people over 60. Seventy other cases were linked to a table tennis club in another part of Seoul, where members also passed the virus at a church.
6:30 a.m.: Chinese authorities reported 25 new cases — 22 in Beijing and three in neighbouring Hebei province. They say 2.3 million people have been tested in an effort to contain the outbreak in the capital that led to the closure of its biggest wholesale food market.
China, where the outbreak began late last year, had eased controls on travel and business as new cases fell. But monitoring and some other restrictions have been reimposed following the recent jump in infections. The Beijing health commission gave no details of where the latest cases might have originated.
Saturday 10 p.m.: President Donald Trump suggested to supporters that he has told members of his administration to slow the rate of coronavirus testing in the United States.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Oklahoma, Trump said the U.S. had tested 25 million people, and far more than any other country. He also told the crowd that more testing leads to finding more cases of people who test positive.
“So I said to my people: Slow the testing down, please,” Trump said at the 19,000-seat BOK Center, which appeared to be roughly half full.
Saturday 9 p.m.: Ontario’s public health units are reporting a total of 35,188 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 2,640 deaths, up a total of 180 new cases since Friday evening, according to the Star’s latest count.
In Toronto, the daily total of new cases fell again to just 53 as the rate of reported infections continues to fall sharply. For the last seven days, the city has seen an average of 76 cases reported each day; that average peaked less than a month ago at 230 cases daily for the seven days ending May 25.
Meanwhile, the city also reported a large uptick in reported deaths Saturday, mostly stemming from newly completed investigations into older cases. Of 25 fatal cases reported Saturday, 24 were from outbreaks that occurred between mid-April and mid-June, Toronto Public Health said.
Earlier Saturday, the province reported that 333 patients are now hospitalized with COVID-19, including 80 in intensive care of whom 63 are on a ventilator. All three totals are near the lowest the province has reported in data that goes back to early April.
The province says its data is accurate to 4 p.m. the previous day. The province also cautions its latest count of total deaths — 2,595 — may be incomplete or out of date due to delays in the reporting system, saying that in the event of a discrepancy, “data reported by (the health units) should be considered the most up to date.”
The Star’s count includes some patients reported as “probable” COVID-19 cases, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or travel history that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received a positive lab test.
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