Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario pushes back start of school to Jan. 5 as cases rise; Ontario reports 13,807 new cases of COVID-19 today and a notable increase in hospitalizations

from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if availableOntario will push back the return to school to January 5, according to a senior government source.

The changes are expected to be announced this afternoon by Ontario's chief medical officer of health. “Like many businesses and organizations, we have seen a surge in the number of sick calls from omicron,” JetBlue said by email Thursday. To give customers time to make other plans, the New York-based carrier pared its schedule through Jan. 13.

Also in the province, 27,012,866 vaccine doses have been administered, with over 197,000 doses administered Wednesday — 90.8 per cent of Ontarians aged 12+ have had one dose and 88.1 per cent have had two doses. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as a booster shot, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that other vaccines be preferred. The CDC raised concerns about rare but life-threatening blood clots that have been linked to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Between the health centre and the community centre, 5,484 vaccines were administered between Dec. 18 and Dec. 27.“People are very informed in The Blue Mountains … and the immunity is waning from the first and second shot, so people are keen to get their third shots and protect themselves,” he said. But the results are rarely reported to public health departments, exacerbating the long-standing challenges of maintaining an accurate count of cases at a time when the number of infections is surging because of the omicron variant.

“We do not yet know exactly how many of those who catch the virus will need hospital treatment,” Stephen Powis, the NHS medical director for England, said in a statement. “But given the number of infections we cannot wait to find out before we act.”New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square as planned despite record numbers of COVID-19 infections in the city and around the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, was initially scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday to share new rules on COVID-19 testing and case management.

Those 2 extra days will save everyone and wipe out the virus. Fantastic.

ambermac

What will this do hahahaha

and what exactly will be happening during the 3rd and 4th that students should be in school, to ensure they will be ready for in-person learning, and the safest spaces they can be FordFailedSchools VoteFordOut2022

BethBlp8 Keep your priceless children home. Ford just doesn’t care! ,

My kids will be taking an extra week off regardless

Wow, pushing it back two extra days is going to help a lot 🙄

Leave the kids alone already

firelecce resigndoug

This isn’t a good idea at all especially with 10k+ cases a day

The extra 2 days fixes everything....covid logic 🤣🤣🤣 muppets

Meh...

pretty hard to get the republicons to show up to do their job. Did sloppy smurf come back from the cottage?

Cases are northing, Dr Robert Malone said Omicron varriant is so weak, he works like a vaccine and offers a good protection against all coronavirus, he said Omicron is a Christmans gift

Too little. Too late. Too often. Impeach fordnation NeverVoteConservative

So 1 day? Lol idiots

Everyone wants this to work, but either the government believes in its 'plan' or they don't. The 'tweak' they appear to be making is a delay of 2 days (how will that achieve anything?), N95s for all (by Wednesday? Fitted? By who?) and distributing more filters? onted

School opening delayed but mass events, strip clubs, bars, remain open. Covid passes not enforced, no compulsory vaccines. Covidiots are prioritised over our children as unvaccinated fill hospitals. Shameful incompetence from fordnation. No respect left, we must vote him out

Dumb, absolutely no point

Wow…🙄🙄🙄. Shows the incompetence.

Yeah! Pandemic will be gone in next 5 days of 2022!😝🤣🤣🤣

Cmon guys only a few more to go!!

isn't that like next Wednesday?

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