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Ontario is reporting 2,139 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
The provincial death toll since the start of the pandemic has topped 4,000.
Locally, there are 780 new cases in Toronto, 528 in Peel, 148 in York Region, 143 in Durham and 111 in Windsor-Essex County.
There are 2,043 more resolved cases and nearly 49,200 tests completed.
President Trump told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday that itβs βtoo soon to give upβ on the election, after the Kentucky Republican congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden on his win for the first time.
The president retweeted a news story aboutΒ TrumpΒ allies criticizing Mr.Β McConnellΒ for congratulating Mr.Β Biden.
Britainβs Armed Forces Memorial is a silent, haunting place.
Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and sweeping lawns, its Homeric figures celebrate determination and sacrifice.
The names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed. The literature says they βdied in operational theatre or were targeted by terroristsβ.
On the day I was there, a stonemason was adding new names to those who have died in some 50 operations across the world during what is known as βpeacetimeβ. Malaya, Ireland, Kenya, Hong Kong, Libya, Iraq, Palestine and many more, including secret operations, such as Indochina.
Not a year has passed since peace was declared in 1945 that Britain has not sent military forces to fight the wars of empire.Β
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509733-john-pilger-virus-covid-war/
ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that U.S. sanctions imposed on Turkey over its purchase of Russian defence systems were an attack on Ankaraβs sovereign rights aimed at deterring its defence industry, a move which he said was bound to fail.
Around 4.7 million people in Spain, which amounts to one in 10 people, have contracted the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, according to a new government-led antibody study.
The figure is significantly higher than the health ministry official tally, which now sits at 1.76 million. It is higher too than the estimate of over three million COVID-19 cases announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in October.
An adviser to Italyβs health ministry has called for coronavirus restrictions to be drastically tightened to avoid a βnational tragedyβ after the national statistics bureau ISTAT said deaths this year would be the highest since World War Two.
βWe are in a war situation, people donβt realise it but the last time we had this many deaths, bombs were dropping on our cities during the war,β public health professor Walter Ricciardi told the television channel la7.
As the widely perceived terrible year of 2020 draws to a close, NASA has shared an alert about five asteroids due to shoot past the Earth on Wednesday and later this week, two of which will come closer to our planet than the Moon.
Some three space rocks, ranging in diameter from roughly a telephone pole size all the way up to two London buses end-to-end, will shoot past the Earth on Wednesday.
The 11-meter asteroid named 2020 XF4 will flyby at 343,000km (213,130 miles) followed by the 24-meter 2020 VY1 at five million kilometers, with 2020 XS5 bringing up the rear at an equally safe distance of three million km. For reference, the average distance between Earth and the Moon is roughly 385,000 kilometers (239,000 miles).
https://www.rt.com/news/509819-nasa-warning-asteroids-coming/
The origins of the coronavirus have been a mystery since the onslaught of the pandemic. However, while many suggested that it was artificially created in a lab, where a leak could have occurred, the WHO has repeatedly denied this version, emphasising its natural roots
Norwegian virologist Birger SΓΈrensen has claimed that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 stems from a laboratory and was leaked by mistake. In an interview with the Swedish news outletΒ Fria Tider, SΓΈrensen alleged that the fact that the virus doesn’t come from the animal kingdom is “evident” both from its structure and from its rapid spread among humans.
