December 28, 2020 – 8:59 AM


Canada has surpassed 15,000 fatalities connected to COVID-19.
The grim milestone was reached with the reporting of 37 new fatalities in Quebec.
A complete of 15,001 Canadians have now died from COVID-19 considering that the pandemic started before this yr.
Of the 37 new deaths, Quebec well being officials say 7 took put in the final 24 several hours, 27 occurred between Dec. 21 and Dec. 26, and three are from unspecified dates.
Quebec is also reporting 2,265 new conditions of COVID-19.
The news will come after a contagious new strain of the virus was observed in two much more sections of the country on Sunday .
The variant very first found in the U.K. has now been observed in Ottawa, the Vancouver Island area of B.C. and in Durham Area east of Toronto, the place the initial two cases were described on Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was initial revealed Dec. 28, 2020.


