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9:12 p.m.: Ontario’s reported the largest single day rise in COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic on Sunday, according to the Star’s count of public tallies and press releases posted by the province’s 34 regional health units.

As of 9 p.m., with several health units still to post their daily updates, Sunday had seen more than 450 new confirmed or probable cases reported, representing a day-over-day rise of 11.3 per cent.

The regional units have reported a total of 144 deaths among 4,538 cases.

8:52 p.m.: Public health officials say six COVID-19 patients at a long-term care home in Oshawa have died.

Glendene Collins of the Durham Region Health Department says 21 others at Hillsdale Terraces Long-Term Care home are confirmed to have the novel coronavirus.

Durham Region has seen 15 deaths in COVID-19 patients thus far, and seven have been in long-term care facilities.

7:39 p.m.: Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced that starting Monday all commercial marine vessels with the capacity of 12 or more passengers will stop non-essential activities, such as tourism or recreation.

Ferries and essential passenger vessel operators are to immediately reduce the maximum number of passengers carried on board by half in an effort to comply with physical distancing rules.

Transport Canada says the measures will be in place until at least June 30. In an effort to protect the North, the department is also preventing any Canadian cruise ship from mooring, navigating or transitioning in Canadian Arctic waters and any foreign passenger vessels would have to give 60-days’ notice just to enter the waters.

5:23 p.m.: Ontario’s local public health units are reporting 4,722 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19, including 143 deaths, according to the Star’s latest count of the public tallies and press releases issued by Ontario’s 34 regional health units.

As of 5 p.m., with several health units still to report, Sunday had already seen nearly 450 new cases reported in Ontario’s largest single-day rise since the start of the pandemic. Many of those came after Toronto announced its largest one-day increase of 206 new cases. The city has so far reported 1,438 confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases, including 27 deaths, with 140 people hospitalized, 58 in intensive care.

As of Sunday morning, the province reports that a total of 1,449 patients have recovered after being infected.

The province says its data is accurate to 4 p.m. the previous day. The province also cautions its latest count of deaths — 119 — may be incomplete or out of date due to delays in its reporting system.

The local health units post new information to their websites throughout the day. The Star’s count includes some patients reported as “probable” COVID-19 cases, meaning they have symptoms or contacts that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received a positive lab test.

5 p.m.: The Saskatchewan government is warning anyone who has COVID-19 to avoid contact with animals, just as they should avoid contact with people.

A news release from the province says that while there is no evidence domestic livestock and pets can be infected with or transmit COVID-19, it says the possibility has not been ruled out.

It says if there is already an animal in the household, that animal should remain in isolation along with the patient.

According to the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association website, some animals have become infected with through close contact with infected humans, but there is no evidence to suggest that animals infected by humans are playing a role in the spread of COVID-19.

4:28 p.m.: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to a hospital with the coronavirus.

Johnson’s office says he is being admitted for tests because he still has symptoms 10 days after testing positive for the virus.

Downing St. said Sunday the hospitalization is a “precautionary step” and he remains in charge of the government.

Johnson, 55, has been quarantined in his Downing St. residence since being diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 26.

4:07 p.m.: There are 15,443 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

Quebec: 7,944 confirmed (including 94 deaths, 464 resolved)

Ontario: 4,038 confirmed (including 119 deaths, 1,449 resolved)

British Columbia: 1,203 confirmed (including 38 deaths, 673 resolved)

Alberta: 1,126 confirmed (including 20 deaths, 196 resolved), 55 presumptive

Nova Scotia: 262 confirmed (including 53 resolved)

Saskatchewan: 249 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 67 resolved)

Newfoundland and Labrador: 217 confirmed (including 1 death, 28 resolved)

Manitoba: 187 confirmed (including 2 deaths, 17 resolved), 16 presumptive

New Brunswick: 101 confirmed (including 28 resolved)

Prince Edward Island: 22 confirmed (including 6 resolved)

Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed

Yukon: 6 confirmed

Northwest Territories: 4 confirmed (including 1 resolved)

Nunavut: No confirmed cases

Total: 15,443 (71 presumptive, 15,372 confirmed including 277 deaths, 2,982 resolved)

3:05 p.m.: Toronto Public Health reported Sunday afternoon that there are now 1,232 cases of COVID-19 in Toronto, an increase of 113 cases from yesterday.

Of the reported cases, 1,026 cases are confirmed and 206 are probable, 69 cases have recovered, 140 are in hospital with 58 in ICU. (25 deaths in Toronto have been reported.) TPH stated that the data was extracted from the Integrated Public Health Information System at 12:30 p.m., cautioning that the numbers may differ from other sources as data are extracted at different times.

While the city said the public was generally complying with rules to combat COVID-19, problem areas were noted, including 141 complaints received Saturday about gatherings and unsafe behaviour at parks. In just the first day of the enforcement blitz, 800 vehicles were turned away at Bluffers Park and 140 vehicles were deterred from parking at High Park. Police also issued 19 parking tickets.

2:56 p.m.: In a rare address to the nation, Queen Elizabeth plans to exhort Britons to rise to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic, drawing on wisdom from her decades as Britain’s head of state to urge discipline and resolve in a time of crisis.

The 93-year-old monarch is expected to acknowledge the suffering that many families have experienced because of the COVID-19 crisis, which has infected killed at least 4,313 Britons. “I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time,” she said, according to excerpts released ahead of remarks that were being broadcast Sunday night. “A time of disruption in the life of our country; a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.”

“I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge,” she said. “Those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any … That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet, good-humoured resolve, and of fellow feeling still characterize this country.”

The Queen gives yearly Christmas messages but has given an address like this on only three previous occasions — after the Queen Mother’s death in 2002, before the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and at the time of the first Gulf War in 1991.

2:28 p.m.: U.S. health officials said Americans should prepare for the worst days ahead, with coronavirus infections in hard-hit New York, Detroit and New Orleans expected to peak this week.

The world’s newly reported cases of coronavirus jumped by more than 100,000 in a day for the first time, reaching 1.2 million infected people globally. The U.S. added more than 33,000 cases, pushing the total number of reported infections above 321,000 as of Sunday afternoon, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The next week will be “the hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on Fox News Sunday. He compared the expected suffering to the devastation from Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

2:10 p.m.: Canada is increasing its international aid to help stop COVID-19 by more than $100 million. International Development Minister Karina Gould said Sunday another $109.5 million will be allocated, on top of $50 million the government announced earlier in March.

She said $30 million will respond to requests for help from specific countries, $40 million will go to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations co-oridinating the world’s efforts to find a vaccine for COVID-19, and $84.5 million will be split between a number of international groups including the World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF, and the World Food Programme.

12:00 p.m.: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced details of a cash payment for Canadians out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Applications for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit will be accepted starting tomorrow, offering Canadians who have lost their jobs because of the crisis $2,000 a month.

Trudeau says it will take three to five days for the money to arrive by direct deposit or 10 days by mail.

Only those born in January, February and March can apply tomorrow. The rest of the months will go in order in groups of three on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before it opens to everyone on Friday.

Trudeau says the government is doing everything it can to prevent the system from crashing, The Canadian Press reports.

12:00 p.m.: Police in Sherbrooke, Que., say a Walmart security guard is fighting for his life after being struck and dragged by a driver who was allegedly enraged by the store’s social distancing policies.

A man reportedly tried to enter the Walmart about 5 p.m. Saturday with his partner, but was told only one person per vehicle was allowed inside. Police say the suspect then struck the 35-year-old guard with his vehicle, dragging him several metres, The Canadian Press reports.

The 35-year-old guard suffered a serious head injury and remained in critical condition on Sunday morning.

The couple left the scene but were later arrested at a nearby residence.

The 25-year-old suspect was expected to appear in court on Sunday, where he could face charges of armed assault with a vehicle, aggravated assault and hit-and-run.

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11:35 a.m.: Another resident of Pinecrest Nursing Home has died, bringing the number of COVID-19 related deaths in the Bobcaygeon, Ont., seniors’ residence to 23.

A wife of a resident at the nursing home has also died.

It is one of the worst outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in the country.

At least 24 staff members at the facility have also tested positive for COVID-19, The Canadian Press reports.

11:15 a.m.: As of 11 a.m. Sunday morning, Ontario’s local public health units are reporting 4,178 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19, including 138 deaths.

That’s according to the Star’s latest count of the public tallies and press releases issued by Ontario’s 34 regional health units.

In 24 hours, the units reported an increase of 376 COVID-19 cases, and 25 deaths, including two reported early Sunday in York region, which has now seen a total of 16 people die in the epidemic.

As of Sunday morning, the province reports that 523 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, including 200 in intensive care units. So far, a total of 1,449 patients have recovered after being infected.

The province says its data is accurate to 4 p.m. the previous day. The province also cautions its latest count of deaths — 119 — may be incomplete or out of date due to delays in its reporting system.

The local health units post new information to their websites throughout the day. The Star’s count includes some patients reported as “probable” COVID-19 cases, meaning they have symptoms or contacts that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received a positive lab test.

9:20 a.m.: About 40 inmates of the Grand Valley Institution women’s prison in Kitchener, Ont., are locked down due to an outbreak of COVID-19.

The union representing guards says at least four inmates of Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont., are infected. It also says one correctional officer has the coronavirus.

Correctional staff say they are working to restrict inmate movement to try to stop the spread of the virus, The Canadian Press reports.

8:40 a.m.: The Canadian military is advising people in the Toronto area to expect a large number of personnel and vehicles on the roads starting Monday as members of the Joint Task Force Central head from units across Ontario to Canadian Forces Base Borden.

The movement is part of the federal government’s fight against COVID-19, The Canadian Press reports.

The Department of National Defence says the aim is to form a task force at Borden with troops ready to respond to requests to help deal with COVID-19 or potential spring flooding.

5 a.m.: Trudeau announced $40 million for Women and Gender Equality Canada Saturday, with up to $30 million to address immediate needs of shelters and sexual assault centres.

Another $10 million will go to Indigenous Services Canada’s network of 46 emergency shelters and $157.5 million will go toward addressing the needs of Canadians experiencing homelessness.

4:07 a.m.: Trudeau plans to speak with Donald Trump in the coming days in hopes of persuading the U.S. president to rescind a White House-ordered ban on exports of key COVID-19 medical supplies to Canada and abroad.

4:07 a.m.: Canadians aboard another COVID-19 stricken cruise ship are expected to start coming home today.

The Coral Princess arrived in Miami Saturday with 97 Canadian passengers and two Canadian crew members aboard, and Princess Cruises said disembarkation of guests who are fit to fly would begin Sunday.

The company has said that a dozen people on board have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, while others are experiencing flu-like symptoms.

4 a.m.: The federal and provincial governments are facing a “potential disaster” if more protections and social-distancing guidelines aren’t extended to migrant agricultural workers, advocates say.

The warning comes days after 14 migrant workers at a Kelowna, B.C., nursery tested positive for COVID-19.

The workers all live in on-site housing, and the Interior Health said there was enough space for each resident to safely self-isolate.

Bylands Nursery, which employs the workers, said in a statement posted on its website that it has been “recognized as one of the best employers of temporary foreign workers in B.C.”

1:30 p.m.: The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 1:26 p.m. on April 5, 2020, according to The Canadian Press. In Ontario, the Star has been keeping a tally of reports from regional public health units:

There are 15,413 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

_ Quebec: 7,944 confirmed (including 94 deaths, 306 resolved)

_ Ontario: 4,038 confirmed (including 119 deaths, 1,449 resolved)

_ British Columbia: 1,203 confirmed (including 38 deaths, 673 resolved)

_ Alberta: 1,126 confirmed (including 20 deaths, 196 resolved), 55 presumptive

_ Nova Scotia: 262 confirmed (including 53 resolved)

_ Saskatchewan: 231 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 55 resolved)

_ Newfoundland and Labrador: 217 confirmed (including 1 death, 28 resolved)

_ Manitoba: 172 confirmed (including 2 deaths, 17 resolved), 22 presumptive

_ New Brunswick: 98 confirmed (including 28 resolved)

_ Prince Edward Island: 22 confirmed (including 6 resolved)

_ Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed

_ Yukon: 6 confirmed

_ Northwest Territories: 4 confirmed (including 1 resolved)

_ Nunavut: No confirmed cases

_ Total: 15,413 (77 presumptive, 15,336 confirmed including 277 deaths, 2,812 resolved)

9:35 p.m.: President Donald Trump warned the United States could be headed into its “toughest” weeks yet as the coronavirus toll mounts, but at the same time expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines.

The number of people infected in the U.S. has exceeded 300,000, with the death toll climbing past 8,100 — more than 3,500 in the State of New York.

“There will be a lot of death, unfortunately,” Trump said in a sombre start to his daily briefing on the pandemic.

8:50 p.m.: New York secured a planeload of 1,000 ventilators from China on Saturday, and Oregon was sending 140 of its own to battle the coronavirus pandemic at its U.S. core, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

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