完整標題：Ontario reports record high 3,328 new COVID-19 cases, 56 new deaths
發稿單位：Canada Broadcast Corporation (CBC)
發稿時間：Dec 31, 2020 10:09 AM ET
撰 稿 者：CBC News
原文連結：
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-covid-19-dec31-1.5858400
簡介：今天安大略省有超過3328人確診，1235人住院，337人住加護病房。
長照機構總計今日28人因疫死亡。
小部份長照病患開始接種莫德納疫苗。因為莫德納疫苗不需要想輝瑞疫苗那樣的嚴苛保存輸
送環境，所以更可以快速施打。
省政府持續呼籲不要跟同戶以外的人一起慶祝節慶。
新聞本文：
Ontario reported a single-day record of 3,328 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday an
d 56 new deaths related to the illness.
The figure marks the first time the province has reported more than 3,000 cases
in a single day, and the third consecutive day Ontario has recorded a record-bre
aking case count.
A record number of patients were also hospitalized and admitted to intensive car
e units (ICUs) on Thursday. Currently, there are 1,235 patients in hospital. Of
those, 337 are in intensive care.
Forty-five patients were admitted to Ontario ICUs on Wednesday, another record d
uring the pandemic.
The number of ICU patients being treated for COVID-19 has doubled since the las
t day of November, when hospitals were treating 168 patients.
Residents of long-term care homes accounted for 28 of the newly tallied deaths.
There are now active COVID-19 outbreaks in 187 LTC facilities, a decrease of fi
ve since Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Ontario's network of labs processed 63,858 test samples for the nove
l coronavirus while another 72,283 tests are in the queue waiting to be complet
ed.
The province's test positivity rate now sits at 5.7 per cent.
Of Thursday's newly confirmed infections, there were 888 in Toronto, 431 in P
eel Region, 418 in York Region, 257 in Windsor-Essex, and 194 in Ottawa.
Ontario's cumulative case count now sits at 182,159. The province's seven-day av
erage has also reached a new record-high, climbing to 2,436.
Other public health units that saw double-digit increases were:
Hamilton: 156
Waterloo: 127
Durham: 114
London: 112
Niagara: 110
Simcoe Muskoka: 83
Southwestern: 79
Halton: 79
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 58
Eastern Ontario: 58
Brant County: 26
Lambton: 25
Huron Perth: 19
Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington: 13
Haldimand-Norfolk: 12
Chatham-Kent: 12
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark: 10
[Note: All of the figures used in this story are found on the Ministry of Healt
h's COVID-19 dashboard or in its Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cas
es for any region may differ from what is reported by the local public health u
nit, because local units report figures at different times.]
ICUs nearing capacity, hospitals say
Ontario hospitals continue to warn that intensive care units are reaching maximu
m capacity and threatening to overwhelm the wider health-care system.
In a statement to CBC Toronto on Wednesday, Anthony Dale, CEO of the Ontario Ho
spital Association said the situation grows "ever more serious by the day."
"Do not celebrate the holidays with people outside your own household. It would
be the ultimate tragedy if the worst consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic hap
pened just as vaccines arrived on Canadian soil," Dale said.
Health Minister Christine Elliott is also urging people to celebrate New Year'
s Eve only with people in their own households.
LTC residents receive first shots of Moderna vaccine
A small number of Ontario long-term care (LTC) residents were the first people i
n Ontario to be inoculated with Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
A shipment of approximately 50,000 doses arrived in Ontario Wednesday. A select
number of long-term care homes are participating in a pilot project that aims t
o iron out logistical challenges as the province begins rolling out the vaccin
e.
Unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Ontario received earlier this month, the Mode
rna vaccine does not need to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, making it more
suitable for transportation to LTC facilities.
Ontario has now administered 23,502 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines. Both vaccin
es it has in stock require two doses to achieve maximum protection from the viru
s.
補充：
不論政府怎樣呼籲，實際上這邊的人現在真的很隨便，幾乎大家都沒在確實跟正確地戴口罩
。被要求自我隔離檢疫的鄰居還在自家開趴，然後被我看到一堆人擠在一台休旅車內出發打
算繼續第二攤…
通知警察？我還不想被鄰居怨恨…