Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Thursday | CBC News

has seen nearly 12.8 million cases of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University, with a death toll of more than 262,000.

ET on Thursday, Canada's COVID-19 case count stood at 350,425, with 59,120 of those considered active cases. A CBC News tally of deaths based on provincial reports, regional health information and CBC's reporting stood at 11,763.

British Columbia reported 13 additional deaths and 738 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as hospitalizations in the province hit a new high.

Health officials also noted that the record high case number reported earlier this week of 941 new cases was the result of a data collection error in the Fraser Health region.

Alberta's death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 500 as case numbers in the province continue to climb, with 1,265 new cases reported on Wednesday.

The province — which had 13,719 active cases on Wednesday — also reported 355 COVID-19 hospitalizations, with 71 in intensive care.

Saskatchewan reported 164 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the number of active cases in the province to 3,012.

Health officials in Manitoba reported 349 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and said hospitalizations had reached a new high of 303, with 50 in intensive care.

Ontario reported 1,478 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, with 572 in Peel Region and 356 in Toronto. The province reported 21 new deaths, bringing the provincial death toll to 3,575.

In Quebec, health officials on Thursday reported 1,464 new cases of COVID-19 and 32 additional deaths.

Quebec has reported a total of 136,894 infections and 6,947 deaths linked to the virus.

In Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia reported 14 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, after reporting 16 new cases a day earlier. .

Nova Scotia has 114 active cases of COVID-19.

Across the North, Nunavut reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, leaving its total case number at 155.

As of early Thursday morning, there were nearly 60.5 million reported cases of COVID-19 worldwide with more than 38.8 million of those considered recovered or resolved, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracking tool.

The Robert Koch Institute, the country's disease control centre, said Thursday that another 389 deaths were recorded overnight, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 15,160.

Germany has seen 983,588 total cases of the coronavirus after adding 22,368 overnight, the agency said.

20 with a goal of pushing the number of new coronavirus cases in each region below 50 per 100,000 inhabitants per week.

7 as COVID-19 cases continued to surge across the country, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday inaugurated a pharmaceutical plant in Siberia that will manufacture drugs to treat COVID-19 as the country reported record high numbers of new coronavirus infections and deaths.

Russia reported a record high of 25,487 new coronavirus infections on Thursday and 524 deaths in the last 24 hours, the highest numbers it has reported since the start of the pandemic.

Roszdravnadzor, the health-care watchdog, said on Thursday that some regions in the country of around 145 million were running out of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, the TASS and RIA news agencies reported.

In the Asia-Pacific region, South Korea reported 583 new cases, the highest since March, as it grapples with a third wave of infections that appears to be worsening despite tough new measures.

The court was hearing a plea seeking to ramp up COVID-19 testing facilities in the capital, which has recorded the most number of cases from any state in India for the last three weeks and more than 100 fatalities on average every day for two consecutive weeks

India has recorded 9.26 million cases of coronavirus, second behind the U.S

In the Middle East, Iran on Wednesday registered a daily record high of 13,843 new cases, the health ministry said, pushing the national tally to 894,385 in the Middle East's worst-hit country