Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, has extended and expanded its stay-at-home orders and given the police sweeping new powers to enforce the mandates in an effort to curb rising case numbers and hospitalizations. The Ontario government is also expected to restrict travel between Manitoba and Quebec, and the police will set up checkpoints at the provincial borders. The increasing case numbers have strained the capacity of intensive care units in many parts of the country. Canada has inched ahead of the United States in new daily coronavirus cases per capita, and officials warned that worse is to come. admissions rose by 34 percent; and each day, 41 people died from Covid-19, a 38 percent increase from the previous week.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2021 22:18 UTC