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The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care in Ontario is projected to reach nearly 800 by the end of April even with the continuation of vaccinations and the implementation of two or four weeks of stay-at-home orders, according to the latest modelling update. Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Table released new modelling on the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday morning.

The 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on loan from the U.S. can now be administered to Canadians, following Health Canada’s assessment of the batch itself and the manufacturing site where it originates. Maj-Gen. Dany Fortin said on Thursday that deliveries to provinces are already underway.

Premier Doug Ford announced all 34 public health regions of Ontario to move into shutdown for a period of four weeks beginning Saturday as the government pulls its emergency brake in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 variants. In-person dining will be shuttered yet again and further gathering restrictions will go into effect across Ontario.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that new pandemic measures for travel are coming and Canadians should cancel any travel plans. Trudeau said that even though existing travel control measures have been effective in keeping the number of infections low, more effort will be needed going forward.

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All but five U.S. Senate Republicans voted in favour of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, making clear a conviction of the former president for "incitement of insurrection" after the deadly Capitol siege on Jan. 6 is unlikely.

GOOD NEWS: Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work -- though not quite as well -- against new mutated strains of the virus circulating in that country and South Africa.

Highly-contagious U.K. COVID-19 variant will likely be dominant strain in Ontario by March, modelling suggests. Officials released updated modelling on Thursday that suggested while testing for COVID-19 is down slightly, cases and positivity rates across the province are on the decline.