The co-owner of a Staten Island bar that has kept serving customers in violation of COVID-19 restrictions was arrested again late Saturday — this time for allegedly ramming his car into a Sheriff’s deputy, according to law enforcement sources.
Danny Presti, co-owner of Mac’s Public House in Grant City, was being held early Sunday at the borough’s 122nd Precinct, police said.
For the second consecutive day, Ontario has set a new record for the number of new COVID-19 infections reported over a 24-hour period.
Provincial health officials are reporting 1,924 new COVID-19 cases today, topping the record high 1,859 new cases confirmed one day earlier.
More than 100 residents, 50 staff members at Etobicoke long-term care home test positive for COVID-19 after outbreak
An outbreak of COVID-19 at an Etobicoke long-term care home last month has resulted in more than 100 residents and 50 staff members testing positive for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Revera, the operator of Westside Long Term Care Home, which is located on Albion Road in Rexdale, said an outbreak was confirmed at the facility on Nov. 12 and since that time, a total of 117 infections have been confirmed among residents and 57 cases have been reported among staff.
Back in February, I wrote a column with the now-quaint headline: “Expect the coronavirus to bring ‘social distancing’ to Canada.” It’s hard to believe now, but that was one of the first times the phrase had appeared in Canadian news. And I was laughed at by some for suggesting back then that we may see the government shut down segments of society and restrict our movements.
According to deals signed so far, Canada could have access to up to 414 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from seven different manufacturers.
The shipment and distribution of the vaccine — once approved — will, however, be a Herculean effort involving a lot of manpower, a web of logistical challenges and scientific constraints.
While Black and Hispanic people in New York City are were more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this year, a new study shows White people are more likely to have severe disease or die from the coronavirus.
OMG they capitalized “white”! Triggered!
Fitness facilities in York Region and the City of Toronto are in lockdown mode. But gyms are sort of still open in York Region. You see, while the authorities have allowed gyms like Fitness Connection to operate, the limitations are so severe it almost doesn’t make sense to open the doors in the first place.
As Fitness Connection co-owner Mike Mak told me, a gym can only have 10 people on the floor at one time. It doesn’t matter how large your gym is — whether it be a mega stadium or a boutique — you can only have 10 people.
Williams acknowledged that “we can’t force someone to take a vaccine,” but when on to explain how people who didn’t take it would have their freedom of mobility severely restricted.
Staten Island’s self-proclaimed “Autonomous Zone” bar can’t legally open its doors to customers, but the joint is still managing to clean up.
A nearly week-old online fundraiser for Mac’s Public House had raised $75,000 by Saturday afternoon.
“We’ve all been shuttered and struggling since the first shutdowns,” co-owner Danny Presti says in the fundraiser.
The latest coronavirus lockdown restrictions announced by California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti are getting a strong push back from business owners, mayors, lawmakers, and sheriffs who say banning outdoor dining and closing children’s playgrounds are unnecessary and ‘not supported by science.’
California’s Department of Public Health on Saturday announced that the Golden State recorded 25,068 new cases of COVID-19 – a record case count for a 24-hour period since the start of the pandemic. The surging number of cases has prompted the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley, and Southern California to impose lockdowns.
But the mitigation measures are being met with anger from business owners who say they are being unfairly punished.
Bar owner in Los Angeles CA is livid to see that mayor Garcetti has approved an outdoor dining area for a movie company directly across from her outdoor dining area (which was shut down) pic.twitter.com/jkUP2CWg35
— Jake Coco 💙🇺🇸🎶🐻 (@jakecoco) December 4, 2020
Should a Democrat leader be caught eating at a fancy restaurant, flying to Hawaii with some lobbyists, or traveling to Mexico for vacation, they’ll simply need to show their Democrat politician ID card, and they’ll be off the hook.
… Immunising a large chunk of the UK’s 68 million people will be an immense task, never mind reaching most of the globe’s 7.8 billion residents.
Nothing on this scale has ever been attempted before.
The vaccines and their equipment – such as the vials to house them – need to be manufactured in mass quantities. Vaccine supply may not be able to meet demand for some time.
The vaccines then need to be transported from factories and delivered to health centres – including those in isolated, hard-to-reach communities across the world.
A long read but informative, short take – no return to normal next year.
Ontario is reporting a single-day record high of 1,859 new COVID-19 cases with nearly a record 59,400 tests processed in the last 24 hours.
The last record for daily infections was logged on Nov. 27 when 1,855 new cases were reported.
‘Massive undertaking’: Roadmap of Canada’s coronavirus vaccine roll-out
If all goes according to plan, Canadians will start getting vaccinated for the novel coronavirus early next year.
And one of the people spearheading those efforts is a Canadian from Sherbrooke, Que. — Nicolas Chornet, senior vice-president of international manufacturing at Moderna.
Understand that all Liberal Party projections are infinitely elastic “stretch goals.”
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other political leaders of all levels will be waiting their turn to receive a COVID-19 vaccine like most other Canadians.
“We have really based our priorities on burden of illness, so people who have died most of the disease or have been most touched with complications, and frontline health-care workers, as well as Indigenous communities and remote communities. Political leaders are not part of these groups,” said Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh, chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) in an interview on CTV’s Question Period.
If police were to cease their 24-hour presence at his boarded-up restaurant, there’s little reason to believe Adam Skelly wouldn’t make another attempt to re-open.
That was the Crown’s position Friday at a hearing requesting Superior Court Justice Jessica Kimmel enact a statutory injunction barring the controversial restaurateur — and his supporters — from attempting to do so.
With a new lockdown order looming in California over a reported spike in COVID-19 cases and hospital beds filling up, the state’s far-left Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t be getting much help enforcing his new restrictions from Southern California sheriffs.
¡Viva la Revolución!
