Coronavirus Update: B.C. says pandemic surgery backlog has been almost cleared. But many are still waiting
Good night, these are the highest coronavirus headlines tonight:
High headlines:
- B.C. says pandemic surgical procedure backlog has been nearly cleared. However many are nonetheless ready
- Alberta permits physicians, different health-care staff to prescribe Paxlovid for COVID
- Throughout lockdown in Shanghai, residents flip to NFTs to fight censorship
Previously seven days, there have been 429 deaths from COVID-19 nationally, down 7 per cent over the identical interval. At the least 6,482 folks are being handled in hospitals and 417 are within the ICU.
Canada’s inoculation rate is 13th amongst international locations with a inhabitants of 1 million or extra folks.
Sources: Canada information is compiled from authorities web sites, Johns Hopkins and COVID-19 Canada Open Information Working Group; worldwide information is from Johns Hopkins College.
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- Enterprise exercise within the euro zone was up final month because of an additional loosening of COVID-19 restrictions, a survey confirmed on Wednesday. “The euro zone financial system has proven stunning resilience within the face of the Ukraine-Russia struggle, because of a renewed burst of service sector exercise as virus containment measures had been relaxed additional throughout April,” stated Chris Williamson, chief enterprise economist at S&P International.
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