Ontario reports more than 1,400 new COVID-19 cases today, 11 deaths
Ontario continues to see a spike in new COVID-19 cases with more than 1,400 infections confirmed over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day total since May 23.
Provincial health officials logged 1,453 new cases today, up from 1,290 on Thursday and 1,031 one week ago.
The seven-day rolling average of new infections has jumped to 1,115, up from 866 last Friday.
Face-mask litter increased 9,000 % in 11 countries in 2020, including Canada: U.K. study
The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment will take years to fully understand, but a new study from the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. is giving a first look at just how much litter stemmed from the first wave.
Published Thursday in the journal Nature Sustainability, the study “Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID measures,” compared and analyzed data from the “COVID-19 Government Response Tracker” from Oxford University and the litter collection app “Litterati,” both open-source databases.
