It’s taken more than six months to reach the grim milestone, and experts warn it will be some time before vaccinations have an impact.

Alarmed by rising COVID-19 infection rates among children over the Christmas break, public health officials are keeping most Ontario elementary schools closed instead of reopening Monday as planned.

The state of Florida has made COVID vaccines available to anyone over 65, prompting a chaotic scramble to get a dose at clinics, hospital drive-through sites and soon, pharmacies.

So far, William Osler Health System, Humber River Hospital and Unity Health’s St. Joseph’s Health Centre are redirecting pediatric in-patients to the Hospital for Sick Children, according to a directive seen by the Star.

The president seems to have surrendered, under some intense pressure, to the reality that he will be leaving office in less than two weeks, Edward Keenan writes.

Meanwhile: D.C.’s top federal prosecutor says “all options are on the table” for charging members of the violent pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol — including sedition charges.

Tracking progress of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout across Canada.

Meanwhile: For the first time, some GTA hospitals are being forced to transfer pediatric in-patients to the Hospital for Sick Children to make room for an unprecedented surge of adults needing treatment for COVID-19.

Economist argues stronger measures needed as COVID cases continue to rise, but curfew must be effective without making it harder for business owners already facing huge challenges.

More than half of Ontarians believe government should make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory, a new public opinion survey suggests.

“It is difficult not to conclude that being restrained in the manner in which the applicant was, over such a significant period of time, would give rise to feelings of victimization,” adjudicator Brenda Bowlby wrote in the decision.

This week’s events in the U.S. capital may have been historic, but the lives of most people in the midst of them felt oddly ho-hum, Edward Keenan writes.

Hundreds of thousands of travellers still flocked in and out of the country every month since last April despite public health measures advising against non-essential travel outside Canada.