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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
10:40 a.m.
Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the forecast for the number of COVID-19 cases next January lower than it was two weeks ago.
She says that is because more stringent measures in Manitoba and British Columbia appear to have been helping control the spread of the novel coronavirus in those provinces.
Still, Canada is forecast to reach 12,000 daily new cases of COVID-19 by the beginning of January, which would bring increased rates of hospitalization and deaths following this rise.
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10:35 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 1,848 new cases of COVID-19 today, and 45 new deaths due to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 469 case are in Toronto, 386 in Peel Region, 205 in York Region, and 106 in Windsor-Essex.
The province says it has conducted more than 63-thousand tests since the last daily report.
In total, 808 people are hospitalized in Ontario due to COVID-19, including 235 in intensive care.
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10:25 a.m.
Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says that ongoing high rates of infections in wider communities leads to more and bigger outbreaks and spread within high-risk settings.
That includes hospitals, schools, correctional facilities, shelters and long-term care homes.
She says preventing these outbreaks in long-term care facilities requires individuals and public health authorities working together because once COVID-19 get into a home it is harder to stop its spread.
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10:20 a.m.
Canada’s chief public health officer says there are now more than 73,200 active COVID-19 cases in Canada, up from about 52,000 just three weeks ago.
Dr. Theresa Tam says despite more than 440,000 cases since the start of the pandemic in Canada, just over one per cent of Canadians have tested positive for COVID-19 so far.
She says that is an important reminder the vast majority of Canadians remain susceptible to infection.
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10:15 a.m.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu says the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines will help fight the COVID-19 pandemic but the worrying increase in cases means Canadians need to buckle down to keep from spreading the illness.
She says staying in, wearing masks when out and using the federal government's COVID Alert app are still the best things to do.
Especially over Christmas holidays, Hajdu says Canadians need to keep apart to save lives.
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10 a.m.
New modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic from the Public Health Agency of Canada says the country is still on a "rapid growth trajectory" as cases of the illness increase.
The projections released today anticipate at least 90,000 more diagnoses by Christmas Day, and potentially as many as 135,000.
They also forecast between 1,300 and 1,800 more deaths in the next two weeks.
The health agency says the curve can be bent downward if Canadians reduce their contacts with others to only the essentials, but if we keep on as we are, the pandemic will continue to get worse in Canada.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 11, 2020.