Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Thursday
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Canada's fourth-wave battle shows cautious signs of progress in some regions, but parts of the Prairies are currently dealing with steep case COVID-19 counts and corresponding stresses on their health systems.
On Thursday, Manitoba reported 132 new cases — the largest single-day caseload since the end of the spring. Ninety-five of those cases are in people who were not fully vaccinated, according to the provincial dashboard. The province also reported one additional coronavirus death.
Meanwhile, neighbouring Saskatchewan is dealing with the highest rate of new daily COVID-19 cases in the last week of any province.
Saskatchewan reported 348 COVID-19 patients in hospital as of Thursday, 78 of them in intensive care. Most were unvaccinated.
The province said it has activated its emergency operations centre so it can redeploy more health-care workers to hospitals that are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.
Premier Scott Moe said Thursday that finding additional front-line workers is a major challenge as hospitalizations continue to break new records almost daily.
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