Covid-19 Daily News Updates – Download January 8, 2021

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Federal News

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his frustration at the slow rollout earlier this week, With 124,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and more than 171,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, Canada is on track to deliver more than 1.3 million doses of both vaccines country wide by the end of the month.
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• Premier Doug Ford is promising further restrictions coming for Ontario, as the province reported a record 4,249 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. The premier said the new modelling coming early next week will paint a potentially dire scenario in the province.
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Provincial News

• Quebec is cancelling ministerial exams for students as schools prepare to physically reopen amid the deepening second wave. As part of the new measures, the province is launching a free tutoring program to help students, as well as providing computers or tablets to students who need them.
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• With Quebec reporting 48,632 people have received their first vaccine dose, the federal and provincial governments are trading blame over a slow. Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube said he hopes to have 250,000 people vaccinated in the province by February 8.
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USA News

• The U.S. economy shed jobs for the first time in eight months in December as the country buckled under an onslaught of COVID-19 infections. The leisure and hospitality sector lost 498,000 jobs last month, with employment at bars and restaurants accounting for three quarters of the drop.
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• Tesla passes Facebook to become fifth most valuable U.S. company. Tesla’s shares jumped about 5.5% at 9:03 a.m. ET to give it a market cap of $802.6 billion, while Facebook’s stock dipped. The social media company now has a market cap of about $755.8 billion.
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International News

• Britain’s medical regulator on Friday approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for use. Three COVID-19 vaccines have now been approved for use in Britain, including the vaccines developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
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• Greece on Friday extended some lockdown curbs to contain the spread of the coronavirus until January 18. The country, in lockdown since early November due to a spike in infections, has seen its public health system come under severe strain while infections are receding at a slow pace.
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