The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday (this file will be updated throughout the day):

11:05 P.M. The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 11:05 p.m. on March 22, 2020:

There are 1472 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

British Columbia: 424 confirmed (including 10 deaths, 6 resolved)

Ontario: 425 confirmed (including 6 deaths, 8 resolved)

Alberta: 259 confirmed (including 1 death)

Quebec: 219 confirmed (including 4 deaths, 1 resolved)

Saskatchewan: 33 confirmed, 19 presumptive

Nova Scotia: 28 confirmed

Manitoba: 11 confirmed, 9 presumptive

New Brunswick: 8 confirmed, 9 presumptive

Canadians quarantined at CFB Trenton: 13 confirmed

Newfoundland and Labrador: 3 confirmed, 6 presumptive

Prince Edward Island: 3 confirmed

The Territories: 3 confirmed

Total: 1472 (43 presumptive, 1429 confirmed including 21 deaths, 15 resolved)

11:01 P.M. Yukon’s chief medical health officer says the territory has its first two cases of COVID-19. Dr. Brendan Hanley says a couple from Whitehorse who attended a conference in the U.S. were tested upon their return.

10:30 P.M. Ontario records another COVID-19 related death as a man in his 80s died at Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, Ont. Both pneumonia and COVID-19 were listed as the cause of death. This brings the province’s total deaths to six.

9:34 P.M. The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), backed by their Athletes’ Commissions, National Sports Organizations and the Government of Canada, have made the difficult decision to not send Canadian teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020 due to COVID-19 risks.

6:35 P.M. Ontario is closing its drive test centres due to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting March 23, 2020 until further notice. It says those who currently have a driver’s license will not lose it, and those with pending tests won’t lose their test fees or have to pay a penalty.

6:30 P.M. Alberta says it has 33 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Saturday, bringing its provincial total to 259. Of these cases, 18 are currently hospitalized, up seven people from Saturday, and one additional patient is in intensive care for a total of seven.

5:40 P.M. Ontario is reporting a fifth death related to COVID-19.

The province says a woman her 70s in York Region, north of Toronto, who had recently travelled, has died.

4:25 P.M. The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada on March 22, 2020:

There are 1,435 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

British Columbia: 424 confirmed (including 10 deaths, 6 resolved)

Ontario: 424 confirmed (including 4 deaths, 8 resolved)

Alberta: 226 confirmed (including 1 death)

Quebec: 219 confirmed (including 4 deaths, 1 resolved)

Saskatchewan: 33 confirmed, 19 presumptive

Nova Scotia: 28 confirmed

Manitoba: 18 confirmed, 1 presumptive

New Brunswick: 8 confirmed, 9 presumptive

Canadians quarantined at CFB Trenton: 13 confirmed

Newfoundland and Labrador: 3 confirmed, 6 presumptive

Prince Edward Island: 3 confirmed

The territories: 1 confirmed

Total: 1,435 (35 presumptive, 1,400 confirmed including 19 deaths, 15 resolved)

4:15 P.M. Prince Edward Island has a third confirmed case of COVID-19 — a woman in her 20s who had travelled to Spain. The woman flew into Toronto on March 14 and self-isolated at a hotel. She then flew to Moncton, N.B., on WestJet flight 3456 on March 16, and drove back to P.E.I.

3:58 P.M. Saskatchewan is reporting eight new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 52 reported cases. Thirty-three of those cases are confirmed and 19 cases are presumptive positive.

3:15 P.M. Toronto’s first death related to COVID-19 is a man in his 70s who had travelled to the United Kingdom, according to a release from Toronto Public Health. The individual was admitted to a hospital in Mississauga on March 14 and died on March 21. There are currently 220 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Toronto. Read Ted Fraser’s story for more details.

3:00 P.M. At least 13 Toronto health care professionals — doctors, nurses and long term care workers — have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Toronto Public Health. Tied in to this revelation is a new testing directive in Toronto where public health is focusing its testing efforts on people who work in healthcare settings, homeless shelters or other places where the nature of their job puts them in contact with large groups of people. Read Kevin Donovan’s story for more.

2:45 P.M. A reprieve for renters in Toronto could come soon. Mayor John Tory is planning a conference call on Monday with landlords in a bid to get some rent leniency for tenants during the pandemic. Patty Winsa reports, here.

2:35 P.M. The Scarborough courthouse will be closed Monday after a person who works there began displaying symptoms consistent with COVID-19. Alyshah Hasham reports.

2 P.M. Quebec Premier Francois Legault says all shopping malls, restaurant dining rooms and salons in the province must close until May 1 in an effort to keep people from gathering. Legault says the measure does not apply to grocery stores, pharmacies and liquor stores located in shopping centres.

11:30 A.M. Blue Mountain is reporting tourism to the area is operating at just 10 per cent of what is normal for March Break. Blue Mountain Resort suspended operations on March 15, closing all lift operations, base lodges, attractions and rental services.

11:00 A.M. Ontario hospitals have been given broad new powers to cope with COVIID-19 outbreaks and special day care centres are being set up for the children of health care workers, paramedics, police and firefighters to help them stay on the job, Rob Ferguson reports.

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The new powers under the provincial state of emergency declared by Premier Doug Ford last week include the cancellation of staff vacations and carte blanche in transferring employees to where they’re needed most.

Volunteers can also be pressed into service doing work usually done by staff, freeing them up for other duties, and temporary workers hired as needed, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones says. Designated day care centres are being exempted from the order that all licensed day care centres shut to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus so they can care for the children of health sector and front-line emergency workers, including correctional officers at jails. Read more here.

10:55 A.M. Conservative leadership candidate Erin O’Toole is calling for the race to be suspended. O’Toole is the latest contender to suggest the party needs to delay the June 27 vote.

10:50 A.M. The House of Commons will reconvene Tuesday to vote on measures to ease the burden of COVID-19 on individuals and businesses. Government officials say they’ve been working behind the scenes with opposition parties to make sure the legislation can be debated and passed as quickly as possible. Read more from Bruce Campion-Smith.

10:45 A.M. Ontario has announced 47 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the province’s total case count to 424. That number includes eight resolved cases and three deaths. More than 8,300 cases remain “under investigation.”

10:35 A.M. Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is declaring a provincial state of emergency due to COVID-19. He says people are blatantly ignoring the need for social distancing. As of 6 a.m. Monday, anyone who enters the province will have to self-isolate for 14 days. Police are being given the power to enforce social distancing with $1,000 fines for individuals and $7,500 fines for businesses.

10:30 A.M. Quebec health authorities are opening a walk-in COVID-19 test clinic in the heart of Montreal’s entertainment district on Monday. The outdoor site includes heated tents and 125 staff members who will be able to take up to 2,000 tests each day. Appointments aren’t needed, however tests will be limited to people who have travelled outside of Canada in the last 14 days, who present symptoms, or who have been in contact with confirmed cases.

8:50 A.M. Ontario Provincial Police are warning that people will face fines for violating orders to close certain businesses and to limit gatherings. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has suggested citizens who know of anyone not self-isolating after returning from international travel should call police. And in Quebec City, police arrested a woman who was infected with the virus but was still walking around outside after being mandated to stay indoors.

8:28 A.M. There are now nearly 312,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins.

The virus pandemic advanced Sunday after the U.S. and Europe reported soaring new cases. Italy announced its biggest day-to-day increase of infections, which rose by 6,600 with nearly 800 new fatalities from the virus that causes COVID-19. The country’s total death toll of more than 4,825 has surpassed the number of deaths in China, where the first cases emerged late last year.

In the U.S. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the government is “literally scouring the globe looking for medical supplies.” Staff at a Detroit hospital began creating homemade face masks for workers. Even rural hospitals were strained as people increasingly felt the pandemic closing in.

7:58 A.M. Late last night 444 Canadians who had been stuck in Morocco arrived in Montreal aboard an Air Canada commercial flight from Casablanca.

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne also tweeted late Saturday night that he has been speaking with his counterparts in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Morocco, Peru, Turkey and the United Kingdom about how to safely repatriate citizens abroad, including those stuck on cruise ships.

7:00 A.M. : Clergy across Canada are moving services to the digital world as they adapt to support their congregations amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has seen governments restrict large gatherings.

Religious leaders say the unprecedented situation has forced them to seek creative alternatives to community-based worship at a time when people are anxious and in need of spiritual support.

7:00 A.M. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the fight against COVID-19 means sheathing partisan swords. Scheer says while the job of the Opposition is to challenge the government, what that looks like in a national crisis is different. “There really isn’t much philosophical difference when it comes to fighting a virus or keeping Canadians healthy and safe,” he said. What that means in practical terms as a minority Parliament gets set to deal with an $82-billion emergency aid package the Liberal government has promised is reframing how the party will approach its work, he said. “It’s less of a debate of the ‘what’ and more accountability on the ‘how,’ “ he said.

7:28 AM Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be updating Canadians again today on the latest measures being taken to try to protect the country against the steadily escalating COVID-19 threat. Trudeau has been holding daily late-morning briefings outside his Ottawa residence where he remains in self-isolation after his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, tested posted for the novel coronavirus.

4:02 A.M. The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. on March 22, 2020:

There are a total of 1331 cases in Canada (45 presumptive, 1286 confirmed including 19 deaths, 13 resolved)

British Columbia 424 confirmed (including 10 deaths, 6 resolved)

Ontario 377 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 6 resolved)

Alberta 226 confirmed (including 1 death)

Quebec 181 confirmed (including 5 deaths, 1 resolved)

Saskatchewan 25 confirmed, 19 presumptive

Nova Scotia 9 confirmed, 12 presumptive

Manitoba 18 confirmed, 1 presumptive

New Brunswick 7 confirmed, 10 presumptive

Canadians quarantined at CFB Trenton 13 confirmed

Newfoundland and Labrador 3 confirmed, 3 presumptive

Prince Edward Island 2 confirmed

The Territories 1 confirmed

SATURDAY

8 p.m. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board is recommending its 56,000 members stop holding in-person open houses during the COVID-19 pandemic. TRREB says it will “suppress” open houses on its websites because the practice is not conducive to social distancing. The board says the decision to hold open houses ultimately lies with the real estate brokerage, but the organization is strongly recommending they stop.

7:30 p.m. The Quebec government forbids most indoor and outdoor gatherings in its effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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