Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 112 new cases, one new death; Possible COVID-19 exposure on Calgary-Halifax flight; Global virus tally tops 25 million - Toronto Star

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.

3:19 p.m.: Public health officials in Nova Scotia say passengers on a recent flight from Calgary to Halifax may have been exposed to COVID-19.

The province says the potential exposure occurred on WestJet flight WS-232 on Aug. 24, which landed in Halifax at 5:14 p.m. that day.

Authorities say passengers in rows 20 through 24, seats A, B, C and D, are more likely to have been exposed to COVID-19.

They say those passengers should call 811 for advice and that all passengers on the flight should self-monitor for any symptoms.

1:32 p.m.: Quebec is reporting 120 new cases of COVID-19 and three additional deaths.

Public health officials say the deaths took place between Aug. 23-28.

The province has now reported 62,352 cases of COVID-19 and 5,758 deaths since the pandemic began.

The number of hospitalizations went down by one over the past 24 hours, for a total of 116.

Of that, 16 people are in intensive care, a decrease of one from the previous day.

The province says it carried out 13,543 COVID-19 tests on Friday, the last date for which the testing data is available.

1:30 p.m.: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally has topped 25 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. leads the count with 5.9 million cases, followed by Brazil with 3.8 million and India with 3.5 million.

The real number of people infected by the virus around the world is believed to be much higher — perhaps 10 times higher in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — given testing limitations and the many mild cases that have gone unreported or unrecognized.

Global deaths from COVID-19 stand at over 842,000, with the U.S. having the highest number with 182,779, followed by Brazil with 120,262 and Mexico with 63,819.

11:15 a.m.: Ontario is reporting 112 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death related to the coronavirus.

There were also 78 cases newly marked as resolved in today's report.

The total number of cases now stands at 42,195, which includes 2,810 deaths and 38,204 cases marked as resolved.

The province says 51 people are currently in hospital with the virus, with 20 in intensive care and 10 on ventilators.

It notes that about 35 hospitals did not submit daily bed census data for the period, as is often the case on weekends. Those numbers will be reflected in the coming days.

The province was able to complete 24,970 tests in the previous day.

10:15 a.m.: As the back-to-school season looms with fears of a second wave of the pandemic, a recent Angus Reid survey indicates that while most Canadians are following all or most advice to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, there is a skeptical cohort that defies guidance on group size, bubbles, handwashing, distancing and masks.

The polling company labelled them “cynical spreaders.” They are more likely to be young, more likely to live in the western part of the country, more likely to believe that current restrictions go too far.

While “cynical spreaders” are in the minority, their reaction to public-health advice and rules is far from original.

Read the full story from the Star’s Katie Daubs here.

10:15 a.m.: South Korea has reported 299 new cases of the coronavirus as officials placed limits on dining at restaurants and closed fitness centres and after-school academies in the greater capital area to slow the spread of the virus.

The 17th consecutive day of triple-digit increases brought the national caseload to 19,699, including 323 deaths.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 209 of the new cases came from capital Seoul, nearby Gyeonggi province and Incheon, a region that had been at the centre of a viral resurgence this month.

Thirty cases were also reported in the southeastern city of Daegu, the epicentre of the previous major outbreak in late February and March.

Churches have emerged as a major source of infections in the Seoul region and elsewhere, with many of them failing to properly enforce masks and allowing worshippers to sing and eat together. Clusters have also popped up from restaurants, schools, nursing homes and apartment buildings.

Health authorities have ordered churches and nightspots to close and shifted more schools back to remote learning nationwide as infections spiked.

For eight days starting Sunday, restaurants in the Seoul area are allowed to provide only deliveries and takeouts after 9 p.m. Franchised coffee shops like Starbucks will sell only takeout drinks and food.

10:13 a.m.: India registered 78,761 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the biggest single-day spike in the world since the pandemic began, just as the government began easing restrictions to help the battered economy.

The surge raised India’s tally to over 3.5 million, and came as the government announced the reopening of the subway in New Delhi, the capital. It also will move ahead with limited sports and religious events next month.

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A country of 1.4 billion people, India now has the fastest-growing daily coronavirus caseload of any country in the world, reporting more than 75,000 new cases for four straight days.

One of the reasons is testing: India now conducts nearly 1 million tests every day, compared with just 200,000 two months ago.

10:12 a.m.: Back in early March, as Ontario’s colleges and universities scrambled to prepare for government shutdown orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Ilene Sova packed up as many art supplies as she could in anticipation of the months of isolation that would follow.

Sova, an instructor at OCAD University in Toronto, said art was her only remedy as the world became more distant and uncertain times emerged.

She would later turn her home office into a makeshift art studio and begin her creative process, but one thing she could not shake off was the thought of her students going through similar emotions.

“While I was making collages one day in early April, I realized that our students might also want to make art about this unprecedented time, and may also benefit from responding creatively,” Sova said in an interview.

That’s when the idea to create a course in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic was born, and Sova approached the school with her plans.

4 a.m.: The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 10:25 p.m. EDT on Aug. 29, 2020:

There are 127,673 confirmed cases in Canada.

-Quebec: 62,232 confirmed (including 5,755 deaths, 55,235 resolved)

-Ontario: 42,083 confirmed (including 2,809 deaths, 38,126 resolved)

- Alberta: 13,476 confirmed (including 237 deaths, 12,054 resolved)

- British Columbia: 5,496 confirmed (including 204 deaths, 4,310 resolved)

- Saskatchewan: 1,615 confirmed (including 24 deaths, 1,548 resolved)

- Manitoba: 1,151 confirmed (including 14 deaths, 693 resolved)

- Nova Scotia: 1,083 confirmed (including 65 deaths, 1,013 resolved)

- Newfoundland and Labrador: 269 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 265 resolved)

- New Brunswick: 191 confirmed (including 2 deaths, 183 resolved)

- Prince Edward Island: 44 confirmed (including 41 resolved)

- Yukon: 15 confirmed (including 15 resolved)

- Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed (including 13 resolved)

- Northwest Territories: 5 confirmed (including 5 resolved)

- Nunavut: No confirmed cases

Total: 127,673 (0 presumptive, 127,673 confirmed including 9,113 deaths, 113,501 resolved)

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 29, 2020.

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