COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s total number of confirmed infections surpassed one million on Saturday.As of 7:20 p.m. ET, the national case count stands at 1,000,550, according to a Global News tally of Canada’s infections.
Of those cases, at least 921,200 are considered to have recovered, while another 23,051 people have died.Canada is the 23rd country in the world to surpass a million confirmed cases, according to a worldwide tally of global infections by Johns Hopkins University.
With COVID-19 variant cases on the rise, what do experts recommend? The milestone was reached amid Canada’s struggles of trying contain a growing third wave of the pandemic, fuelled largely by more contagious variants of the coronavirus.As of Thursday, a combined.