Ontario reports 587 new COVID-19 infections, 5 more deaths
Ontario is reporting 587 new COVID-19 cases and five more deaths on Thursday as the seven-day rolling average continues to decline.
Today’s case count is up from the 476 infections logged yesterday but down from the 647 cases reported last Thursday.
Get in line, Canada, the U.S. has bigger problems than its closed border
… Throughout the pandemic, COVID-19 deaths per capita in Mexico have been three times higher than in Canada, and Mexico has at points relied on vaccines from Russia and China that are not approved in the U.S. Aside from that, the politics of the U.S. southern land border are always a lightning rod because of immigration and refugee fights that dominate American partisan politics when they flare up, as they have this year.
For reasons of both public health and political optics, reopening the land border to Mexicans now is a potentially explosive issue.
