The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available:

9:50 p.m.: John Prine, one of America’s greatest songwriters, has died at age 73 from coronavirus complications, the New York Times reported.

His family posted a message on his official Twitter page on Sunday saying the singer had been hospitalized since Thursday and his condition worsened on Saturday. They added that he’d been placed on a ventilator to treat COVID-19 symptoms.

9:15 p.m.: The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario is authorizing cannabis retail stores in the province to offer delivery and curbside pickup services.

It’s a temporary measure that the commission says is being introduced to help fight illegal cannabis sales. The order will last for 14 days, with the possibility of an extension.

Authorized cannabis stores will be able to sell, deliver and offer curbside pickup from Monday to Sunday, between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. A maximum of 30 grams of dried cannabis (or equivalent) per transaction remains in place. And cannabis cannot sold or delivered to anyone under 19 or who appears to be intoxicated, the commission says.

The AGCO added that it will not issue new store authorizations until the government’s emergency order has been lifted.

8:16 p.m.: Global Affairs Canada has confirmed to the Star that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marta Morgan has tested positive for COVID-19.

“The deputy is exhibiting mild symptoms and is in good spirits. She is in regular contact with local health officials and is self-isolating for the duration of the illness,” a spokesperson for Global Affairs told the Star.

“Global Affairs Canada has therefore put in place appropriate measures, including contact tracing, to advise and protect employees, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to conduct the important work that we do to advance Canadian interests.”

The revelation, initially reported by Global News, comes on the same day that stranded Canadians from India, Trinidad and Tobago made their way back to Canada thanks to flights facilitated by Global Affairs.

A spokesperson for Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne said Champagne will continue to follow the advice of public health officials and “self-monitor for symptoms.”

Champagne said on Tuesday that “the hard work of Canada’s consular officials around the world has helped facilitate the return home of thousands of Canadians.”

“Unfortunately, it will not be possible to ensure the return of all Canadians who wish to come home,” Champagne said. “Global Affairs Canada will continue providing advice and support to Canadians outside Canada.”

8:06 p.m.: Alberta will most likely see a peak of coronavirus infections in mid-May and somewhere between 400 and 3,100 deaths by the end of summer, as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold of the province.

Those are the projections put forward by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on Tuesday night as he became the latest provincial leader to publicly lay out the probable and worst-case scenarios of the pandemic.

During a televised address to the province, Kenney said it was time for “complete candour.”

6:49 p.m.: In a press conference on Tuesday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he may look into freezing the country’s contributions to the World Health Organization.

"I‘m not saying I‘m going to do it, but we are going to look at it,” Trump said.

5:35 p.m. (updated at 9:10 p.m.): New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus rose past 4,000 on Tuesday, eclipsing the number killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

COVID-19’s toll in New York City is now more than 1,000 deaths higher than that of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil, which killed 2,753 people in the city and 2,977 overall, when hijacked planes slammed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

New York state recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths, its biggest one-day jump yet, for a statewide toll of nearly 5,500, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

“A lot of pain again today for many New Yorkers,” he said.

But in an encouraging sign, the governor said hospital admissions and the number of those receiving breathing tubes are dropping, indicating that measures taken to force people to keep their distance from one another are succeeding.

5:15 p.m.: Ontario has seen more than 500 new cases of COVID-19 and 25 more deaths Tuesday, according to the Star’s latest count of the public tallies and press releases issued by the province’s 34 regional health units.

As of 5 p.m., with several still yet to post a daily update, the health units were reporting a total of 5,637 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 190 deaths.

The largest increase in deaths came in Toronto, where Medical Officer of Health Eileen de Villa announced another 10 people had died of the disease, bring the city’s total to 42 since the beginning of the pandemic. Elsewhere, new COVID-19 deaths were reported in Durham region; Haldimand-Norfolk; the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ride district; Leeds, Grenville and Lanark; Middlesex-London; Waterloo Region; Windsor-Essex and York region.

According to the province, 614 patients are now hospitalized with COVID-19, including 233 in intensive care. Both numbers have grown in recent days.

An additional 1,802 people 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 — 153 — may be incomplete or out of date due to delays in its reporting system.

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

4:45 p.m.: Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg, who is in charge of the city’s emergency operations centre, says they are assessing whether anyone who received defective surgical masks has been exposed to COVID-19.

The city is recalling the shipment of 4,000 boxes containing 50 masks per box, worth $200,000. The masks were made in China. About 62,600 masks were distributed to the city’s long-term care homes on March 26.

Pegg said it’s the only bad shipment the city has had to date, to his knowledge. City medical officer of health Dr. Eileen de Villa didn’t have a number for how many long-term care homes received the masks.

Pegg also said there were 385 complaints Monday about people using closed parks and lack of physical distancing, with 12 tickets issued, for a total of 26 tickets handed out.

4:30 p.m.: Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says while Alberta has the medical capacity to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic impact will be crippling, with at least 25 per cent unemployment in the province — at least half a million unemployed, The Canadian Press reports.

“This will be the most challenging period in our economy in relative terms since the Great Depression,” he told an online conference of oil and gas leaders.

Kenney was to speak to Albertans in a televised address on Tuesday night, and to lay out plans to eventually re-energize an economy pummelled by the global recession and an oil price war.

3:15 p.m.: City of Toronto officials will give their daily briefing at 3:45 p.m. A livestream of their news conference will be available at thestar.com when it starts.

2:55 p.m.: The City of Toronto said it is recalling poor quality surgical masks distributed to staff. It was discovered Monday that a recently-purchased order of more than $200,000 worth of surgical masks didn’t meet specifications, the city announced in a news release.

After reports of ripping and tearing, further inspection of the masks determined that the masks ordered did not meet the city’s standard and specifications. The masks are being returned, and the vendor has committed to a full refund.

There were 40,000 boxes containing 50 masks per box were received. In addition, 1,252 boxes, or 62,600 masks, were distributed to the City’s long-term care homes on March 28.

The City is investigating to determine how many employees in the city’s long-term care homes were caring for a patient while wearing these masks, and if there was possible exposure to COVID-19.

2:35 p.m.: The Canadian Grand Prix has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montreal-based Formula One race was scheduled to take place June 12-14.

The announcement comes after F1 said it was working with promoters on a revised 2020 schedule.

2:10 p.m.: Manitoba is reporting 13 news cases of COVID-19 and one additional death. Twelve people are in hospital, six of whom are in intensive care.

The province has recorded totals so far of 217 cases — 203 confirmed and 14 probable — three deaths and 21 people recovered.

1:45 p.m.: Who’s still crowding into TTC buses amid the pandemic? Evidence suggests many are Toronto’s working poor. Read the story from the Star’s Ben Spurr.

1:45 p.m. (updated): Quebec Premier François Legault says he has added someone new to the province’s list of essential services — the tooth fairy.

Legault played a short video during his daily briefing in Quebec City of a girl named Raphaelle asking whether the tooth fairy is allowed out and about during the pandemic.

He said the tooth fairy will continue working, and he assured parents the fairy has immunity against the novel coronavirus.

Earlier, Premier Doug Ford Premier said the Easter Bunny has been deemed an “essential service” in Ontario.

1:40 p.m.: There are two new cases of COVID-19 in New Brunswick today, increasing the provincial total to 105.

Chief medical officer Dr. Jennifer Russell says the latest cases are a person between the age of 10 and 19 and someone between the age of 70 and 79, which shows the virus can affect people of any age.

Russell is now recommending the use of non-medical face coverings when people go out in public.

1:22 p.m.: The largest and most popular park in Vancouver will become car-free by noon Wednesday as park officials move to ensure physical distancing.

Vancouver Park Board general manager Malcolm Bromley says cars will be banned from most roads in Stanley Park, allowing cyclists to use the routes.

Cyclists will be moved off the park’s picturesque, 10-kilometre seawall, giving more room to walkers and joggers.

The goal is to keep all Vancouver parks open while permitting physical distancing but if the Stanley Park experiment fails, Bromley says the whole park could be closed, although he doubts that will be required.

1:15 p.m.: Quebec Premier François Legault says Quebec has recorded 29 additional COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total to 150.

There are now 9,340 confirmed cases of the disease in the province, an increase of 760 from Monday.

For the second straight day, the premier pointed to the low number of new cases requiring hospitalization as an encouraging sign.

The province is reporting 583 COVID-19 patients in hospital, an increase of 50, and 164 requiring intensive care, the same number as the previous day.

1:20 p.m.: Premier Doug Ford is opening a new online portal to get more health-care workers onto the front lines. Seeking retirees and others with medical training.

1 p.m.: Ford to update the media in his daily briefing. Check thestar.com for a livestream of the news conference.

12:39 p.m.: A long-term care home north of Montreal is reporting that 105 people at its facility have tested positive for COVID-19 and eight have died. A spokeswoman for the regional health authority says the facility in Laval decided to test all its residents last Friday to learn the size of the outbreak.

Judith Goudreau says the testing revealed 69 new cases among the 174 tested, in addition to the several dozen cases previously reported among residents and staff. Goudreau says 87 health-care employees are affected across Laval, however it’s unclear how many of those were associated with the care home.

12:38 p.m.: Newfoundland and Labrador has confirmed two more cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 228. The province’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, says the new cases are in the Central and Eastern health authorities.

Seven people are in hospital from the virus and two are in intensive care. The province has tested 3,958 people.

12:30 p.m.: Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada received eight million surgical masks from China on Monday, and orders made directly by Nova Scotia and Quebec were on board.

She says Canada expects more deliveries from China in the days to come.

She says Canada has sourced more than 230 million surgical masks, and over 60 million have been delivered to date.

Canada has also ordered 113,000 litres of hand sanitizer, most of which is expected to be delivered this month.

Roughly 20,000 litres of hand sanitizer have been received in the last 24 hours and officials are expecting another 20,000 litres this week.

12:25 p.m. (updated): Another resident at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon, Ont., has died, bringing the total number of COVID-19 related deaths at the seniors’ residence to 27.

The wife of a resident also died from the disease in what is considered one of the worst outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in Canada.

Nearly half of the residents at the 65-bed nursing home have died, while at least 24 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19.

12:15 p.m.: Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says there are 17,063 COVID-19 cases across the country, 345 deaths, 346,000 people tested, with five per cent positive testing rate. There is one case in an Inuit community, which Tam says is very serious given heightened risk in those communities.

11:55 a.m.: The Canadian Football League is postponing the start of its 2020 season until the beginning of July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Commissioner Randy Ambrosie announced the postponement in a release, noting that some CFL cities have indicated they won’t allow sporting events through the end of June.

Ambrosie said the league will try to play a full season, though significant changes will have to be made.

The CFL season was scheduled to start June 11 and finish with the Grey Cup game in Regina on Nov. 22.

11:50 a.m.: The ruling in the high-profile aggravated assault trial of an off-duty Toronto police officer and his brother has been delayed, amid widespread court closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca had originally been scheduled to release his ruling Thursday in the case of off-duty Toronto officer Michael Theriault and his brother, Christian Theriault.

Read more from the Star’s Wendy Gillis.

11:40 a.m.: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Huawei’s donation of masks is appreciated but won’t have any impact on how Ottawa deals with the company. Read the Star’s Jeremy Nuttall’s story from Monday on relations between Canada and China.

11:30 a.m.: Organizers have announced that the Toronto Fringe Festival has been cancelled due to COVID-19.

Ontario’s largest performing arts festival, which brings over 1,100 artists and 140 shows together with 68,000 tickets issued each July, will be cancelled for the first time in its 32-year history. It was originally scheduled for July 1-12.

11:20 a.m.: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces deals to put another 30,000 ventilators into production in Canada, on top of the 10,500 announced earlier. Canada has about 5,000 ventilators now.

Trudeau says the government has acted to have companies build as many ventilators as they can, as quickly as they can to meet domestic needs, as well to supply countries that don’t have the capacity to build them.

11:15 a.m.: Nova Scotia has identified 17 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 310 confirmed cases. The province also recorded its first death from the virus earlier today.

Heath officials say the microbiology lab at the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s microbiology lab completed more than 530 tests Monday and is now operating 24 hours a day.

Health officials say 11 people are currently in hospital, while 66 people have now recovered and their cases of COVID-19 are considered resolved.

11:08 a.m. (updated): Trudeau is set to hold his daily media briefing at 11:15 a.m. A livestream of his news conference will be available at thestar.com when it begins.

11:06 a.m.: Ontario’s local public health units are reporting 24 more COVID-19 deaths and 447 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Star’s latest count.

As of 11 a.m. Tuesday morning, Ontario’s 34 public health units are reporting a total of 5,306 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19, including 173 deaths, up 9.2 per cent and 16.1 per cent, respectively, since the same time Monday.

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New deaths were reported in Windsor-Essex, York Region, and Haldimand-Norfolk, south of Hamilton, early Tuesday. With two more deaths reported Tuesday morning, York Region has now seen 19 confirmed patients die since the pandemic began.

According to the province, 614 patients are now hospitalized with COVID-19, including 233 in an intensive care unit. Both numbers have grown steadily in recent days.

The province says its data is accurate to 4 p.m. the previous day. The province also cautions its latest count of deaths — 153 — may be incomplete or out of date due to delays in its reporting system.

The Star’s total is based on public tallies and press releases posted to the local health units’ websites, which are updated throughout the day. The count includes some patients reported as “probable” COVID-19 cases, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or travel history that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received a positive lab test.

11 a.m.: Ontario is reporting that there are now 614 people in the province hospitalized with COVID-19, with 233 of them in intensive care and 187 of those people on ventilators.

There are at least 51 long-term care homes in Ontario with one or more cases of COVID-19, and there have been at least 69 deaths in those institutions.

More than 500 health-care workers in the province have tested positive, representing about 11 per cent of all of the confirmed cases in Ontario.

9:54 a.m.: Stocks climbed in early trading on Wall Street Tuesday as markets around the world piled on even more gains following their huge rally a day earlier.

The S&P 500 jumped more than 2.5 per cent in the first few minutes of trading and added on to Monday’s seven per cent surge, following encouraging signs that the coronavirus pandemic may be close to levelling off in some of the hardest hit areas of the world.

The TSX was up 2.5 per cent in early trading.

9:15 a.m.: The Canada Revenue Agency says 788,510 people successfully applied Monday for pandemic-related emergency relief.

About 572,500 of the applications for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit were made online, while almost 215,800 applied by calling in.

The agency’s figures capture from the time applications opened at 6 a.m. Monday until midnight. Hundreds of thousands more are expected to apply today and tomorrow for the $2,000-a-month benefit that is available for up to 16 weeks.

Here’s the Star’s guide on how to apply for CERB.

9:10 a.m.: Nova Scotia has recorded its first death related to COVID-19.

Health officials say a woman in her 70s with underlying medical conditions died Monday in a hospital in eastern Nova Scotia.

Premier Stephen McNeil issued a brief statement saying he had hoped this day would never come, and he expressed his condolences to the woman’s grieving family and friends.

8:45 a.m.: Two staff members at two separate Longo’s locations — one at 9200 Weston Road and one at 2810 Major Mackenzie Drive — have tested positive for COVID-19 according to statements by the City of Vaughan and Longo’s. York Region Public Health has followed up with the cases and has identified anyone they might have come into contact with. Neither person is currently working in the stores.

8:25 a.m.: The number of patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario ICUs continued to grow over the past week, but at a slower daily growth rate than the week before, according to provincial data. That doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods. The Star’s Kenyon Wallace and Andrew Bailey has the story.

7:45 a.m. Singapore is considering new laws that would ban both public and private gatherings of any size as the city-state ramps up social distancing measures to fight the coronavirus, said health minister Gan Kim Yong. Laws debated during Parliament on Tuesday would criminalize gatherings among friends or family members who are not living together — and apply to private quarters or public spaces such as parks, according to a copy of his speech received by email.

The proposed clampdown on meetings comes on a day when the city-state closed most workplaces, except for essential services and key economic sectors. It’s also moving to fully home-based learning in schools. Local transmissions of the coronavirus and unlinked infections have continued to rise in the country in recent weeks.

7:35 a.m. Hospital doctors staged protests around Greece to press demands for the government to hire additional medical staff and use more resources from the private sector. Doctors and other staff members led the silent demonstrations Tuesday at the front entrance of Greece’s largest hospital in central Athens, wearing surgical and protective gear.

Holding up banners reading “We fight for you. Shout for us,” the doctors said more resources were needed to deal with the pandemic in Greece. The national coronavirus death toll reached 79 on Monday and still remains below the number of fatalities attributed to seasonal flu.

5:08 a.m.: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared an emergency for Tokyo and its surrounding regions, after a recent surge in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the metropolis sparked alarm.

The one-month emergency period from April 7 will cover Osaka, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Hyogo and Fukuoka prefectures as well as the capital.

5:06 a.m.: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spent the night in the intensive care unit of a London hospital with the new coronavirus, but is not on a ventilator, a senior government minister said Tuesday.

Johnson was admitted to St. Thomas’ Hospital late Sunday, 10 days after he was diagnosed with COVID-19, the first major world leader to be confirmed to have the virus. He was moved to the ICU Monday after his condition deteriorated.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said Johnson is being given oxygen but “the prime minister is not on a ventilator.”

Gove said Johnson is “receiving the very, very best care from the team at St Thomas’ and our hopes and prayers are with him and with his family.”

“We’re desperately hoping that Boris can make the speediest possible recovery,” Gove said.

Johnson’s fiancée, Carrie Symonds, who is pregnant, is herself recovering from coronavirus symptoms.

Britain has no official post of deputy prime minister, but Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been designated to take over temporarily.

4:26 a.m.: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan filed a criminal complaint against a Fox TV anchorman for suggesting the government might require citizens to dig into their bank accounts to help battle the coronavirus fallout.

The president sued Fatih Portakal for “spreading lies and manipulating the public on social media,” state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Tuesday. The nation’s banking regulator also filed a complaint against Portakal for social media posts about the Turkish banking and finance system.

4 a.m. (updated at 6:40 p.m.): There are 17,896 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada as of 6:20 p.m. as compiled by The Canadian Press.

Quebec: 9,340 confirmed (including 150 deaths, 720 resolved)

Ontario: 4,726 confirmed (including 153 deaths, 1,802 resolved)

British Columbia: 1,291 confirmed (including 43 deaths, 805 resolved)

Alberta: 1,373 confirmed (including 26 deaths, 447 resolved)

Nova Scotia: 310 confirmed (including 1 death, 66 resolved)

Saskatchewan: 260 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 88 resolved)

Newfoundland and Labrador: 228 confirmed (including 2 deaths, 49 resolved)

Manitoba: 203 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 21 resolved), 14 presumptive

New Brunswick: 105 confirmed (including 30 resolved)

Prince Edward Island: 22 confirmed (including 8 resolved)

Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed

Yukon: 7 confirmed (including 4 resolved)

Northwest Territories: 4 confirmed (including 1 resolved)

Nunavut: No confirmed cases

Total: 17,896 (14 presumptive, 17,882 confirmed including 381 deaths, 4,041 resolved)

3:44 a.m.: Iran’s Parliament reconvened on Tuesday for the first time since Feb. 25, when it shut down due to the new coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. More than two-thirds of the Majlis’s 290 lawmakers met in the absence of speaker Ali Larijani, who tested positive for the virus last week, the report said.

With 3,739 deaths from 60,500 known cases, Iran remains the epicentre of coronavirus in the Middle East. Two of the dead were members of Parliament.

3:33 a.m.: South Korea says it will soon announce a guideline for hospitals on experimental coronavirus treatments using donated blood from patients who survived. Kwon Jun-wook, an official from South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday the guideline will draw from the country’s experience with similar treatments on patients who contracted the MERS virus during an outbreak in 2015.

Kwon said officials were examining recent recoveries of two elderly COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Seoul who had been infused with survivors’ plasma — the liquid part of blood that contains antibodies — after other treatment attempts failed to improve their conditions.

He cautioned there’s still no guarantee that plasma treatment will work, and that health authorities and civilian experts are continuing to debate its effectiveness.

1:50 a.m.: New Zealand’s health minister has described himself as an “idiot” and has been stripped of some responsibilities after breaching the country’s planned four-week lockdown measures.

David Cook drove about 20 kilometres to the beach to take a walk with his family. He said that at a time when the government was asking New Zealanders to make historic sacrifices by staying at home, he had let them down.

“I’ve been an idiot, and I understand why people will be angry with me,” he said in a statement.

Clark had earlier admitted to driving to a park near his home to go mountain biking.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said under normal circumstances, she would sack Clark. But she said the country couldn’t afford massive disruption in its health sector while it was fighting the virus. Instead, she said, she was stripping Clark of his role as Associate Finance Minister and demoting him to the bottom of the cabinet rankings.

1:29 a.m.: For the first time since January, China said there were no new coronavirus deaths in the country with the toll remaining at 3,331 on April 6, 2020. The National Health Commission said there were 32 new cases, with all of them imported. China now has 81,740 confirmed cases and 77,167 patients have been discharged.

7:45 p.m.: 3M says it will continue to send its coveted N95 respirators to Canada after reaching an agreement with the White House to import millions of the increasingly scarce medical face masks from China for use in the United States.

The Minnesota-based company issued a release late Monday after President Donald Trump announced the company would be producing 166.5 million masks over the next few months for the U.S. market.

3M says it worked with the Trump administration to make sure it could meet soaring American demand for the N95 masks without sacrificing its ability to provide the life-saving equipment to customers in Canada and Latin America.

Trump picked a fight with 3M last week after hearing reports that the company was selling its masks outside the U.S. despite the fact there wasn’t enough supply in the country to meet the needs of health-care workers battling COVID-19.

The president invoked the Defense Production Act to compel companies like 3M to prioritize domestic orders.

5:25 p.m.: Another 20 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in Ontario so far Monday, according to the Star’s latest count of the public tallies and press releases issued by the province’s 34 regional health units.

As of 5 p.m., with several yet to post a daily update, the health units were reporting a total of 5,102 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including a total of 165 deaths — a total that’s nearly four times higher than at this time last week.

Monday saw new deaths reported in several regions that have seen deadly outbreaks at long-term care or retirement homes, including Toronto, Durham region, Hamilton, Niagara region and the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit. Haliburton is the site of Ontario’s worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic; three more residents of the Pinecrest Nursing Home were reported dead Monday.

In Toronto, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa on Monday said that 15 of the city’s 32 COVID-19 deaths have come in long-term care or retirement homes.

As of Sunday morning, the province reports that a total of 1,449 patients have recovered after being infected by COVID-19.

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 and contacts or travel history that indicate they very likely have the disease, but have not yet received a positive lab test.