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Here is your update with everything you need to know about the coronavirus situation in British Columbia and around the world.
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June 15, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 16 minutes reading • 74 comments Here is your daily update with everything you need to know about the situation with COVID-19 in British Columbia and around the world. Photo from iStock / Getty Images Plus
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Here is your update with everything you need to know about the situation with COVID-19 in British Columbia and around the world for the week of June 9-15, 2022.
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We will provide summaries of what is happening here so you can get the latest news at a glance. This page will be updated regularly every day this week, adding developments when they happen, so be sure to check back often.
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Here are the latest data for BC, given on June 9 for May 29 – June 4:
• Hospitalized cases: 325 • Intensive care: 28 • New cases: 895 in seven days • Total confirmed cases: 372 611 • Total deaths in seven days: 43 (total 3614)
Read the full report here Next update: June 16 at 1 p.m. (or later)
Titles at a glance
• Ottawa had to throw away nearly 15 million doses of expired COVID-19 vaccine. • Did you get COVID again? Here are good questions and answers about re-infections and immunity: • The increase in COVID reading is here to say, says Harry Potter publisher • Ottawa announces end of vaccine requirements for domestic travel and outbound international flights, as well as for federally regulated • The Canadian tourism industry is calling for more measures to end airport congestion • No need to panic about re-infection with COVID, says UBC health expert after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s test is positive again • Alberta is ready to end its latest COVID restrictions by the end of Tuesday, including transit masks • Canada’s COVID Alert application is expected to be discontinued in the coming days, according to a federal government source • Both commercially available mRNA vaccines are safe , with a low risk of major adverse events, according to a large study • Pandemic stress is associated with ovulation disorders and for many women with no obvious changes in their menstrual cycle, according to a new UBC study. Immune system T cells can provide more accurate information about the body’s ability to control the coronavirus than tests that measure antibodies, researchers say. • The United States stops testing COVID for arriving international air passengers • Weekly BC data show another 43 deaths, while hospitalizations and cases are declining.
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Nearly 15 million doses of Canadian COVID-19 vaccine have expired
OTTAWA – The federal government had to dispose of nearly 15 million doses of expired COVID-19 vaccine, including nearly 14 million AstraZeneca vaccines donated to the COVAX vaccine sharing alliance last year.
According to a document submitted to the House of Commons last week, the government destroyed approximately 1.2 million doses of Moderna vaccine, which expired in mid-March or mid-April this year.
But that waste is just a drop in the bucket compared to nearly 13.6 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the government to other countries last year, which remained in the manufacturer’s warehouses until they expired, according to new data from the National Health Canada. .
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This is because despite a series of donations proudly announced by the Trudeau government in July 2021 (including 17.7 million doses of AstraZeneca), it turns out that the global COVAX vaccine sharing alliance was already full at AstraZeneca when doses of Canada were donated.
Read the whole story here.
– National Post Offices
Why We Can Never Stop Getting COVID: What We Know About Re-Infections And Immunity
“I feel good,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assured Canadians on Monday as he shared his second positive test for COVID-19 in January, joining the growing number of recurring entanglements with COVID.
“He is not alone,” said Dr. Catherine Hankins, co-chair of the Canadian Immunity Working Group. Nearly nine million adults in Canada were infected with the “parent” Omicron, BA.1, by mid-March, according to a study funded by a working group published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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“Most people who got BA.1 may have thought, ‘I’m fine for a while now.’ But it depends on what the virus throws at us, “said Hankins, and SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to re-infect humans by mutating and bypassing the immune system against vaccines and previous infections.
COVID infections also do not always boost the immune system. Another study, funded by the Hankins group, found that one in eight people with COVID did not develop detectable antibodies.
The only predictor of the inability to produce antibodies? No fever or chills.
“We will probably never stop getting COVID,” said Matthew Miller, a Canadian researcher in viral pandemics at McMaster University in Hamilton. How often we become infected again will depend on how quickly SARS-CoV-2 mutates in the future and how long immunity will last, he said.
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Read the whole story here.
– National Post Offices
The publisher of Harry Potter says that the increase in COVID reading will remain here
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc said the jump in reading during the blockade in Britain is the new normal state after the pandemic, as the company best known for the Harry Potter series reported record revenue.
Year-over-year sales rose 24% to £ 230.1 million ($ 277 million) and profits jumped 40% as people continued to buy novels and books about hobbies and personal interests, the company said in a statement. on Wednesday, surpassing analysts’ estimates.
Shares of Bloomsbury rose more than 6% at the start of trading in London. The publisher’s sales and profits also increased significantly two years ago, before the Covid-19 virus spread around the world, forcing people to stay at home and temporarily close stores.
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Bloomsbury said Covid has turned many people into regular book readers and buyers, even as social life returns to normal and sales in the first quarter of the current fiscal year are stable.
“The pandemic has made us all re-evaluate how we spend our time, and this has led to increased book sales,” Bloomsbury CEO Nigel Newton said in a statement. “The surge in reading, which seemed to be one of the only rays of light in the darkest days of the pandemic, may now be revealed as permanent.
“Bloomberg.”
Federal vaccine mandates will be suspended for local and outbound travelers
Transport Minister Omar Algabra said the Canadian government would suspend mandates for a vaccine against COVID-19 for local and outgoing international travelers and federally regulated workers.
The new rules will take effect on June 20, although the requirements for foreigners coming to Canada will not change.
Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs Dominique LeBlanc warns that the government is ready to “return” the necessary policies if there is a resumption of the virus in the autumn.
Groups in the tourism industry have blamed federal public health measures and mandates to delay airport customs, which have contributed to long waits for passengers and forced delays and cancellations.
LeBlanc says the decision to drop the federal mandate is not a response to the situation at airports in Canada, but rather “based on science.”
The change will also affect federal workers who have been placed on unpaid leave due to their vaccination status.
Read the whole story here.
– The Canadian press
More steps are needed besides suspended tests for COVID-19 to alleviate delays: tourism industry
Ottawa’s suspension of randomized COVID-19 tests by customs marks a major shift toward clearing clogged terminals, but more measures are needed to end airport blockades, industry groups say.
Waiting times and delays on arrivals at major airports have improved as soon as the move took effect on Saturday, according to the Canadian Airports Council and the Greater Toronto Airport Authority.
“We are very encouraged by the news. This is a big step forward in tackling the problem of delays, “Council President Monet Pascher said in an interview Monday.
“But there is still a lot of work to be done, as there were still delays at the gates, albeit for shorter periods of time. In our business, we never want to see people waiting on the tarmac. ”
On Friday, Ottawa announced that it would suspend COVID-19 tests on internationally selected incoming passengers, and that mandatory rapid tests for unvaccinated arrivals would take place off-site from July 1st.
The airport council and other industry groups are now calling for an end to vaccination mandates for passengers and aviation, security and customs officials, saying hundreds more could return to work amid a labor crisis.
Read the whole story here.
– The Canadian press
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