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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
12:50 p.m.
Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting three new cases of COVID-19.
The first case involves a man in his 60s in the eastern health region and is related to travel inside Canada.
The other two are in the western health region — a woman between 20 and 39 years old and a male under 20 — and both are close contacts of previous cases.
The province currently has 26 active infections.
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12:35 p.m.
Deputy Chief Public Health Minister Dr. Howard Njoo says Canada will be making adjustments at the border for incoming flights "very soon."
Njoo says the prime minister and the government are looking at COVID-19 data and a decision to do more at the border is imminent.
Opposition Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says the Liberal government needs to immediately stop admitting flights from COVID-19 "hot spot" countries like India and Brazil.
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12:25 p.m.
More than 10 million Canadians have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The milestone was passed this morning.
There are, however, still fewer than one million people who have received both required doses of vaccine.
Second doses are being delayed up to four months so more people can get their first dose earlier.
Canada is vaccinating people more than twice as fast as it was a month ago, but the number of doses given each day slowed this week due to supply issues.
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12:15 p.m.
Prince Edward Island is reporting one new case of COVID-19 today.
Chief medical officer of health Dr. Heather Morrison says the case involves someone who travelled to P.E.I. from outside Atlantic Canada.
There are 12 active reported cases in the province.
P.E.I. has a total of 175 COVID-19 infections and no deaths linked to the virus.
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11:35 a.m.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says he supports the federal Conservatives’ call to immediately block flights from "hot spot" countries like India and Brazil to cut down on the flow of COVID-19 variants into Canada.
Blanchet says barring those flights from touching down is the "responsible thing to do," and should happen "rapidly and severely."
He says exceptions could be made for essential services, particularly those involving Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines produced in India.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, who proposed the restriction this morning, did not lay out specifics on how to beef up border protections beyond disallowing planes from certain countries from landing.
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11:20 a.m.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says the federal government needs to immediately stop admitting flights from COVID-19 "hot spot" countries like India and Brazil.
He says the move would buy time to figure out a better plan for stopping variants of concern from getting into Canada.O'Toole doesn't have specifics for what he thinks should happen to beef up border protections beyond not allowing flights to land from certain countries.
Health Canada says about one per cent of arriving passengers are testing positive but can't say how many have tested positive after 10 days.
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11:15 a.m.
Quebec is reporting 1,248 new COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including two in the past 24 hours.
Health officials say hospitalizations have dropped by five, to 711, and 174 people are in intensive care, a drop of four.
The province says 84,837 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the past 24 hours.
Health Minister Christian Dube is holding a news conference later today to provide an update on the province’s vaccine rollout.
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10:55 a.m.
Nunavut is reporting three new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the territory's active case count to 36.
There are 34 cases in Iqaluit and two in Kinngait, which have been linked to the outbreak in Iqaluit.
Both communities are under strict lockdowns, with all schools, non-essential businesses and workplaces closed.
To date, 14,742 adults in the territory of 40,000 have had one dose of the Moderna vaccine and 11,830 people have had the required two doses.
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10:45 a.m.
Quebec's premier says a number of premiers are writing to the prime minister, urging the federal government to tighten COVID-19 restrictions for people arriving on international flights and across Canada’s land border.
Francois Legault says there are real concerns about overseas flights, notably those coming from countries such as India and Brazil, which are struggling with more transmissible variants.
He says Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia are among the provinces that are behind the letter.
Legault says the provincial leaders are also in agreement that everything must be done to reduce travel between provinces.
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10:30 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 3,682 new cases of COVID-19 and 40 more deaths linked to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 1,131 new cases in Toronto, 507 in Peel Region and 436 in York Region.
She also says there are 279 new cases in Ottawa and 200 in Durham Region.
Nearly 135,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ontario since yesterday's daily report.
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10:20 a.m.
Premier Doug Ford is promising a paid sick-leave program for Ontario workers after months of saying a provincial policy wasn't needed.
He says people forced into quarantine should not have to worry about their jobs or income.
Ford says the province is now working on a solution because the federal government hasn't expanded its own policy.
The emotional premier also apologized for increasing police enforcement powers and closing playgrounds last Friday.
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10:15 a.m.
Nova Scotia is reporting 38 new cases of COVID-19 today and now has a total of 111 active infections.
Thirty-three cases have been identified in the Halifax area, three in the eastern zone, and one each in the northern and western zones.
Nineteen of the Halifax cases are close contacts of previously reported cases, 10 are under investigation and four are related to foreign and domestic travel.
All of the remaining cases in other parts of the province are related to travel, with four linked to international travel and one to travel outside of Atlantic Canada.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 22, 2021.