April 29, 2020 by mayorpellegrini | Apr 29, 2020 | COVID-19 Update KEY UPDATES FEDERAL Acknowledged uncertainty for youth, many don’t know what they will do in the coming months · Indicated a $9 billion plan to support students that will be introduced into legislation today o Includes an emergency benefit for students to receive $2,500 a month during the summer o Investing 76,000 additional jobs for students in sectors that need help o Students helping in the COVID-19 fight would be eligible for $1,000 to $5,000 through new Canada Student Service Grant for Volunteer Hours o Acknowledged specific support for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation students o For graduate students and those conducting research will extend scholarships, fellowships and grants so work can continue o Doubling student grants for low and middle income students for 2020 and 2021 · Boosting Canada Child Benefit (CCB) payment in May · Have supplemented GST credit to help lower income Canadians · Reminded Canadians they have until August to make income tax payment · Starting this weekend in Nova Scotia, Canadian Forces Snowbirds will head across Canada to salute Canadians doing their part to stop the spread of COVID-19 PROVINCIAL The Premier announced the Province is expanding the eligibility list for emergency childcare · There is a positive trend with the lowest amount of cases seen over the past three weeks; we are getting close to opening up More Frontline Workers Eligible for Emergency Child Care: Ontario To Help More Essential Staff During the COVID-19 Outbreak o The Ontario government is further expanding the list of essential workers eligible to receive free emergency child care during the COVID-19 outbreak o Those who will benefit include people who work in the food supply chain, retirement homes, grocery stores, pharmacies and certain federal employees, including the military YORK REGION · In response to the improper disposal of PPE we are seeing in our communities, waste tips were posted to York.ca and issued on Facebook and Twitter; information has also been shared with our local municipal partners to share on their social channels · In recognition of National Immunization Awareness Week, residents are encouraged to continue with routine immunizations during COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of other infectious diseases · Respiratory therapists at Southlake Regional Health Centre donate $1,350 to local food bank COVID-19 IN YORK REGION · Below is a summary of the detailed information contained in the Interactive Dashboard – Cases at york.ca/covid19 In York Region, as of April 29, at 5 p.m. there are: – 1,487 confirmed cases – 30 new cases since yesterday – 6 new fatalities – 44 confirmed cases in hospital, 16 of which are in Intensive Care – 83 cases among health care workers – 96 total confirmed deaths – 611 resolved cases, which equals about 41% – 39 institutional outbreaks under COVID-19 protocols: o 14 Long-Term Care/Retirement Homes o 25 Community Care Settings – 2 institutional outbreaks declared over The comprehensive list of outbreaks (including the number of resident and health care worker positive cases) is available on york.ca/covid19 and the data can be filtered by municipality. To access this list, select the blue drop-down menu titled Interactive Dashboard – Outbreaks in Long-Term Care and Community Care Settings As of this morning, there are: · 15,728 total cases (9,612 resolved); with 996 related deaths in Ontario · 50,373 (347 increase) total cases; with 2,904 related deaths in Canada · Over 2.9 million total cases worldwide with cases in 213 countries, areas or territories; 204,987 related deaths