nfld Opening travel for Christmas would be the 'wrong decision,' says Dr. Janice Fitzgerald N.L. has 7 active cases, with no new cases Thursday Newfoundland and Labrador reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, meaning the province's caseload remains at 298, while Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer of health, says non-essential travel won't be expanded for the Christmas and holiday season. Some families have been eagerly awaiting news for weeks, as Fitzgerald and the public health team considered the options and risks of allowing non-essential travellers from outside the Atlantic bubble into the province. With second waves of COVID-19 hitting other provinces and parts of the world, said Fitzgerald at the province's weekly pandemic briefing, it's the wrong time to open Newfoundland and Labrador's border, as it's been the closure that has helped prevent spread of the virus. bc Latest modelling shows COVID-19 cases in B.C. doubling every 13 days Majority of cases traced to household gatherings and community interactions COVID-19 cases in B.C. are doubling every 13 days, according to the latest epidemiological modelling presented by the province. Modelling showed that over the past two weeks cases have been intensely focused in the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions. The latest data shows that the reproductive number for those two health authorities is currently above one — meaning each case is leading to more than one new case. "We're accelerating the number of cases in our community," said Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. "We are in a challenging time, perhaps the most challenging time of this pandemic." Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix presented the latest modelling on Thursday, while also announcing an additional 1,130 cases in B.C. over a 48-hour period. Four more people have died of COVID-19. There are currently 155 people in hospital, with 44 of those cases in critical care.

ontario Ontario could hit 6,500 new COVID-19 cases daily by mid-December without further action, modelling shows Province previously forecast 1,200 new daily cases by mid-November, a number surpassed this week Ontario could see 6,500 daily new cases of COVID-19 by mid-December if no further action is taken to curb the fast-rising curve, new modelling shows. New projections by Ontario's science advisory table show the pandemic is worsening across the province overall. Long-term care residents' deaths are increasing each week and case numbers are likely to exceed those of European cities currently in some form of lockdown, if case counts continue to grow by 5 per cent. But a five per cent growth rate is an "optimistic" scenario, according to Adalsteinn Brown, dean of the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health and co-chair of Ontario's COVID-19 science advisory table.