Global News shows that in country of the USA, 47 million Americans have been infected with the virus - that’s nearly 15 per cent of the total population.
New cases are increasing by about a million people every two weeks. And at least 14 states are reporting an uptick in overall hospitalizations.
On Wednesday the USA began administering Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5 to 11, the latest group to become eligible for the shots.
With American Thanksgiving approaching, medical experts say the situation could get even worse. Jennifer Johnson reports.
Coronavirus Worldwide:
Total Cases: 219,456,675
Deaths: 4,547,782
Total doses given: 7,481,935,061
People fully vaccinated: 3,199,153,582 (% of population: 41.1%)
'People fully vaccinated' shows how many people have received the full amount of doses for the COVID-19 vaccine.
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that experts are urging caution in Ontario after daily cases of COVID-19 have nearly doubled in the past week, which could be linked to increased capacity limits and gatherings at Thanksgiving and Halloween.
In Canada, Ontario reports 666 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday and 7 deaths. 88.7% of Ontarians aged 12+ have now had at least 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
For Vaccinations: 22,712,900 doses have been administered to date. Currently, 88.7 per cent of Ontarians aged 12 or older have received at least one dose of a vaccine, while 85.5 per cent have received double doses.
CBC News in Canada shows that really almost 200 nations attending the UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow accepted a contentious climate compromise aimed at keeping alive a key target to limit global warming, but it contained a last-minute change that some high officials called a watering down of crucial language about coal.
COP26 is the interesting conference. "I wish we had managed to preserve original language on coal," says UK COP26 President Sharma.
"Nevertheless, we do have language on coal, on phase down, and I don't think anyone at the start of this process would have necessarily expected that that would have been retained."
CBC News in Canada shows that Manitoba Health Minister Audrey Gordon joins CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton to talk about the province implementing stronger restrictions to stem rising COVID-19 cases.
The Canada Manitoba Health Minister warns of tougher restrictions soon if Manitoba cannot control COVID-19 case eruptions. 'I could be out next week making changes,' says Audrey Gordon, who's confident new restrictions will work.
Audrey Gordon says she won't hesitate to impose tougher pandemic restrictions on Manitobans, if the latest round of public health orders don't bring down the soaring infection rate.
The health minister is confident the new restrictions targeting religious gatherings and youth sports announced last Friday will be enough.
Manitoba is becoming the hot spot for COVID-19 infections in Canada.
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that COVID-19 cases are rising in several parts of the country, leading Manitoba to reinstate some restrictions and Ontario pausing plans to lift more capacity limits. But the high vaccination rate and the pending approval of a vaccine for children is giving many hope.
On January 12, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, reported to the WHO on December 31, 2019.
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant death toll.
Vaccination for the dangerous virus is important. Health Canada is responsible for approval and regulation of vaccines (and other pharmaceuticals), while the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is responsible for public health, emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention. Vaccines are authorized by Health Canada, purchased by the Government of Canada and distributed by PHAC to individual provinces and territories in tranches based on various factors such as population size and prioritized peoples. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has also issued recommendations on how vaccines should be distributed.
The National Research Council Canada (NRC) has made investments in the domestic development of vaccine candidates, including candidates by the University of Saskatchewan and Variation Biotechnologies.
Global News in Canada has the breaking news from Glasgow, Scotland where delegates at COP26 have finally reached an agreement - but a last minute change to the text proposed by India has infuriated many countries and prompted the president of the climate summit to say sorry. "I apologize for the way this process has unfolded and I’m deeply sorry, COP26 President Alok Sharma said. The change weakens the language on the use of coal in the efforts to cut emissions. Redmond Shannon has more.
The climate crisis will also be on the agenda next week in Washington (USA), when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with USA President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The leaders will attend the first "Three Amigos" summit since 2016. Mercedes Stephenson has been talking to Canada’s ambassador in Washington about the issues.
Global News in Canada shows that here’s another piece to the climate change puzzle that Canadians must confront.
Few countries in the world have permafrost, but Canada has 4 million square kilometres of it.
Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing permafrost - which accounts for 40 per cent of this country’s surface.
That big melt is releasing carbon that has been locked away for centuries. Not only that - life is being disrupted in these remote northern communities. Eric Sorensen explains more.
Permafrost is defined as ground that continuously remains below 0 °C (32 °F) for 2 or more years, located on land or under the ocean. Permafrost does not have to be the first layer that is on the ground. It can be from an inch to several miles deep under the Earth's surface. Some of the most common permafrost locations are in the Northern Hemisphere. Around 15% of the Northern Hemisphere or 11% of the global surface is underlain by permafrost, including substantial areas of Alaska, Greenland, Canada and Siberia. It can also be located on mountaintops in the Southern Hemisphere and beneath ice-free areas in the Antarctic. Permafrost frequently occurs in ground ice, but it can also be present in non-porous bedrock. Permafrost really is certainly formed from ice holding various types of soil, sand, and rock in combination.
Permafrost frequently contains large amounts of so-called biomass and decomposed biomass that has been stored as methane and carbon dioxide in the permafrost, making the tundra soil a carbon sink. As global warming heats the ecosystem and causes soil thawing, the permafrost carbon cycle accelerates and releases much of these so-called soil-contained greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, creating a feedback cycle that increases climate change.
"Biomass" is plant or animal material (sometimes used as fuel to produce electricity or heat). Examples are wood, energy crops, and waste from forests, yards, or farms. Since biomass technically can be used as a fuel directly (e.g. wood logs), some people use the terms biomass and biofuel interchangeably. More often than not, the word biomass simply denotes the biological raw material the fuel is made of. The word biofuel is usually reserved for liquid or gaseous fuels, used for transportation. The USA Energy Information Administration (EIA) follows this naming practice. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) defines bioenergy as a so-called renewable form of energy. In 2017 the IEA (International Energy Agency) described bioenergy as really the most important source of renewable energy.
The International Permafrost Association (IPA), founded in 1983, has as its objectives to foster the sharing of knowledge concerning permafrost and to promote cooperation among persons and national or international organisations engaged in scientific investigation and engineering work related to permafrost and seasonally frozen ground. The IPA became an Affiliated Organisation of the International Union of Geological Sciences in July 1989.
The Association’s primary responsibilities are to convene International Permafrost Conferences, undertake special projects such as preparing databases, maps, bibliographies, and glossaries, and coordinate international field programmes and networks. The International Conference On Permafrost (ICOP) is regularly held since 1965.
Permafrost or perennially frozen ground is defined as earth material that remains at or below 0 °C for at least 2 consecutive years. As such, upwards of 25% of Planet Earth is underlain to some degree by permafrost and in extreme conditions reaches depths of 1500 meters. Permafrost occurs in the high latitudes and mountains and plateaus of both hemispheres.
