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Good evening, here are the coronavirus updates you need to know tonight.

Top headlines:

  1. February, 2020, was a “lost month” for Canada in terms of crisis preparation, according to an independent expert panel
  2. Nurses are expressing frustration that doctors are getting paid up to five times as much for doing the same tasks
  3. Hundreds of menstruating women have experienced inconsistencies in their periods after their COVID-19 shot. Are vaccines to blame?

In the last 7 days, 48,454 cases were reported, down 11 per cent from the previous 7 days. There were 316 deaths announced, down 5 per cent over the same period. At least 3,773 people are being treated in hospitals and 1,204,328 others are considered recovered.

Canada’s inoculation rate is 14th among 84 countries with a population of one million or more people.

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Sources: Canada data is compiled from government websites, Johns Hopkins and COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group; international data is from Johns Hopkins University.


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Doctor Juerg Leuthard of the Swiss Medix health centre prepares a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination centre at a church in Zurich, Switzerland on May 12, 2021.ARND WIEGMANN/Reuters


Coronavirus in Canada


A new report says that Canada’s delayed response in February, 2020, resulted in a “lost month” in the fight against COVID-19.

  • The independent panel looking at the global response to COVID-19 echoed criticism that Canada and other countries acted too slowly in the early months of the outbreak. The delay left many countries unable to contain the coronavirus.

Vaccines: Are COVID-19 vaccines messing with women’s menstrual cycles?

Immunization: Nurses are upset and frustrated by higher pay rates for doctors performing the same tasks at COVID-19 vaccination clinics

AZ: Questions over the use of AstraZeneca continue to swirl, as most provinces said they’re pausing its use for most – if not all – first doses.


Coronavirus around the world


Coronavirus and business

Conservative and NDP MPs questioned Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland about a Globe and Mail investigation, which found that hundreds of publicly traded companies, or their wholly owned subsidiaries, together received at least $3.6-billion in Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy payments.

  • About a quarter of those companies saw their revenue increase in the second quarter of 2020 compared with the year earlier, and a large minority saw their net income from operations increase in that period.

Also today: Toronto-based Freshii records $1.05-million net loss in first quarter amid ongoing COVID-19 closures

And: Developers wrestle with COVID-19 outbreaks on construction sites


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Sources: Canada data are compiled from government websites, Johns Hopkins University and COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group; international data are from Johns Hopkins.

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