April 23, 2021

April 23rd is the 113th day of 2021. There are 252 days remaining until the end of the year.

Nine new positive COVID-19 case reported Thursday by Chatham-Kent Public Health.

There were 7 recoveries, the total active cases locally to 38.

There were 3,682 positive cases reported Thursday in Ontario.

For the first time in over a month Ontario reports more resolved COVID-19 cases than new cases.

India has recorded the highest one-day tally of new Covid-19 cases anywhere in the world – and the country’s highest number of deaths over 24 hours.

Thursday, India registered 314,835 new cases, which is the highest one-day increase in cases worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic.

Over 2,000 deaths were also recorded in the 24-hour period. The country continues to struggle under a second wave, lack of oxygen and a “double mutant” variant, named B.1.617.

For the sake of context, India’s population is nearly three and a half times that of Canada. But India’s outbreak is undoubtedly the world’s biggest in absolute numbers at the moment — nearly 28% of all new cases worldwide in the past week came from India, said the World Health Organization.

On Thursday afternoon, the Canadian government announced that it is banning all passenger and commercial flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days. The ban went go into effect at 11:30pm last night.

There’s a blood donor clinic Tuesday in Tilbury at the arena from 1-7.

Book yours now at Blood.ca, use the Give Blood app or call 1-888-2-DONATE. Donations are by appointment only, no walk-in appointments are available.

Clinics will remain open throughout the pandemic. Leaving home to give blood is allowed even during a lockdown.

Your donation matters, book now and save a life.

The 93rd annual Academy Awards will be handed out Sunday. You can watch The Oscars on ABC at 8:00pm.

Because of the pandemic, they were postponed two months, originally scheduled for February 28th.

There isn’t a host again this year, the last host was Jimmy Kimmel in 2018. This year will definitely be different, with presenters, nominees and performers at different locations and other COVID protocols in place.

Researchers at Purdue created the whitest paint ever.

Researchers say coating buildings with this paint may one day cool them off enough to reduce the need for air conditioning. It reflects 98.1% of light. The previous record was 95.5%. The researchers believe that this white may be the closest equivalent of the blackest black, Vantablack, which absorbs up to 99.9% of visible light.

Typical commercial white paint gets warmer rather than cooler. Paints on the market that are designed to reject heat reflect only 80%-90% of sunlight and can’t make surfaces cooler than their surroundings.

This new paint, which may become available for purchase in the next year or two, could someday help combat global warming and reduce our reliance on air conditioners. https://t.co/WZKBGVpTDR

— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) April 22, 2021

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This post was written by Chris McLeod