Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case count dips below 600 for first time in 8 months
Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case count has dropped to its lowest level since late September as the number of patients in intensive care dips below 500 for the first time in two months.
Ontario reported 525 new cases of COVID-19 today marking the first time in eight months that the daily case count has dropped below 600 in the province. It is also the lowest single-day total reported in Ontario since Sept. 27.
Pandemic likely to drive a surge in immigration fraud, border agency warns
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to drive an increase in immigration fraud and human smuggling as desperate migrants try to get into Canada, says a strategic intelligence report prepared by the Canada Border Service Agency.
The report warns that economic downturns and increased poverty abroad caused by the pandemic will prompt more people to resort to irregular methods to come to Canada.
“With more people looking to immigrate, there is likely to be an increase in fraud in all immigration streams via the use of fraudulent supporting documentation to bolster visa or permanent resident applications, fraudulently acquired travel documents to be able to board flights to Canada and misrepresentation,” says the report, dated June 2020.
