完整标题：Ontario reports record high 3,328 new COVID-19 cases, 56 new deaths
发稿单位：Canada Broadcast Corporation (CBC)
发稿时间：Dec 31, 2020 10:09 AM ET
撰 稿 者：CBC News
原文连结：
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-covid-19-dec31-1.5858400
简介：今天安大略省有超过3328人确诊，1235人住院，337人住加护病房。
长照机构总计今日28人因疫死亡。
小部份长照病患开始接种莫德纳疫苗。因为莫德纳疫苗不需要想辉瑞疫苗那样的严苛保存输
送环境，所以更可以快速施打。
省政府持续呼吁不要跟同户以外的人一起庆祝节日。
新闻本文：
Ontario reported a single-day record of 3,328 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday an
d 56 new deaths related to the illness.
The figure marks the first time the province has reported more than 3,000 cases
in a single day, and the third consecutive day Ontario has recorded a record-bre
aking case count.
A record number of patients were also hospitalized and admitted to intensive car
e units (ICUs) on Thursday. Currently, there are 1,235 patients in hospital. Of
those, 337 are in intensive care.
Forty-five patients were admitted to Ontario ICUs on Wednesday, another record d
uring the pandemic.
The number of ICU patients being treated for COVID-19 has doubled since the las
t day of November, when hospitals were treating 168 patients.
Residents of long-term care homes accounted for 28 of the newly tallied deaths.
There are now active COVID-19 outbreaks in 187 LTC facilities, a decrease of fi
ve since Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Ontario's network of labs processed 63,858 test samples for the nove
l coronavirus while another 72,283 tests are in the queue waiting to be complet
ed.
The province's test positivity rate now sits at 5.7 per cent.
Of Thursday's newly confirmed infections, there were 888 in Toronto, 431 in P
eel Region, 418 in York Region, 257 in Windsor-Essex, and 194 in Ottawa.
Ontario's cumulative case count now sits at 182,159. The province's seven-day av
erage has also reached a new record-high, climbing to 2,436.
Other public health units that saw double-digit increases were:
Hamilton: 156
Waterloo: 127
Durham: 114
London: 112
Niagara: 110
Simcoe Muskoka: 83
Southwestern: 79
Halton: 79
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 58
Eastern Ontario: 58
Brant County: 26
Lambton: 25
Huron Perth: 19
Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington: 13
Haldimand-Norfolk: 12
Chatham-Kent: 12
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark: 10
[Note: All of the figures used in this story are found on the Ministry of Healt
h's COVID-19 dashboard or in its Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cas
es for any region may differ from what is reported by the local public health u
nit, because local units report figures at different times.]
ICUs nearing capacity, hospitals say
Ontario hospitals continue to warn that intensive care units are reaching maximu
m capacity and threatening to overwhelm the wider health-care system.
In a statement to CBC Toronto on Wednesday, Anthony Dale, CEO of the Ontario Ho
spital Association said the situation grows "ever more serious by the day."
"Do not celebrate the holidays with people outside your own household. It would
be the ultimate tragedy if the worst consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic hap
pened just as vaccines arrived on Canadian soil," Dale said.
Health Minister Christine Elliott is also urging people to celebrate New Year'
s Eve only with people in their own households.
LTC residents receive first shots of Moderna vaccine
A small number of Ontario long-term care (LTC) residents were the first people i
n Ontario to be inoculated with Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
A shipment of approximately 50,000 doses arrived in Ontario Wednesday. A select
number of long-term care homes are participating in a pilot project that aims t
o iron out logistical challenges as the province begins rolling out the vaccin
e.
Unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Ontario received earlier this month, the Mode
rna vaccine does not need to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, making it more
suitable for transportation to LTC facilities.
Ontario has now administered 23,502 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines. Both vaccin
es it has in stock require two doses to achieve maximum protection from the viru
s.
补充：
不论政府怎样呼吁，实际上这边的人现在真的很随便，几乎大家都没在确实跟正确地戴口罩
。被要求自我隔离检疫的邻居还在自家开趴，然后被我看到一堆人挤在一台休旅车内出发打
算继续第二摊…
通知警察？我还不想被邻居怨恨…