Ontario announced on Saturday an expansion and an extension of free emergency child care it is offering to front-line workers as the province logged another 3,443 new COVID-19 cases and 40 more deaths. Workers now eligible for childcare include Canada Post employees, staff with the RCMP or Canada Border Services, court services staff, power workers and those providing services to unhoused people. Employees of a hotel or motel that is acting as an isolation centre, health care centre, vaccine clinic or housing essential workers. There are now 400 COVID-19 patients in ICUs across the province, according to the latest data from Critical Care Services Ontario. Several other regions in Ontario reported COVID-19 cases numbers in the triple digits on Saturday.

Source: CBC News January 09, 2021 15:12 UTC