On Monday, Canada reported 4,212 new COVID-19 cases and 56 additional fatalities, all of which occurred over the past 24 hours.
In total, Canada has reported 712,831 COVID-19 cases and 18,070 coronavirus related fatalities.
Canada reported its first case of COVID-19 on 27 January 2020 after a citizen returning from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Late last year, Canada initiated a vaccination campaign after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received approval on December 9, 2020.
On December 14, Canada began rolling out COVID-19 inoculations to health care workers and other high-risk individuals.
The United States is currently leading global COVID-19 cases with over 24.4 million infections and 407,334 fatalities, although India trails behind with 10.5 million cases and 152,528 deaths. As for the third-highest caseload and death toll, Brazil follows with 8.4 million cases and 209,868 deaths.
The novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei, China, on Dec. 31, 2019, and has infected more than 95.6 million individuals worldwide, resulting in over 2 million fatalities across 219 countries and territories.
The Panthera Post 