February 28, 2022

February 28th is the 59th day of the year. There are 306 days remaining until the end of the year.

Ontario reported 842 people hospitalized due to the virus on Sunday. That’s the first time since December 30th the figure has been below 1,000.

Chatham-Kent Public Health will update local numbers this morning.

Canada is easing the on-arrival testing for fully-vaccinated travelers beginning today.

This means that travelers arriving to Canada from any country and who qualify as fully vaccinated no longer need the expensive PCR test and can instead opt for a cheaper rapid antigen test approved by the country they are coming from, so long as it is taken within 24 hours of their scheduled flight or arrival at the land border.

Travelers may also be randomly selected for arrival testing, but they won’t be required to quarantine while awaiting their test result.

But unvaccinated travelers will need a test on arrival, again after eight days, and must also quarantine for 14 days.

All travelers, regardless of how long they were away from Canada, continue to be required to submit their mandatory information via ArriveCAN (via the free mobile app or website)

On February 28, 2022, on-arrival testing requirements are changing.

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— Health Canada and PHAC (@GovCanHealth) February 21, 2022

The federal government is matching donations made by Canadians to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

Now through March 18, Global Affairs Canada will match up to $10-million in donations made to the Canadian Red Cross, adding to the millions in aid and loans already promised to Ukraine by the government.

Russian troops began invading Ukraine on Thursday.

Donations made to the Canadian Red Cross will be placed in its Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal. Those funds will then be funneled to groups like the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, other national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

On Friday, the Ontario government directed the LCBO to remove all products produced in Russia from store shelves.

All products made in Russia will be removed from LCBO stores and the corporation’s website. This will affect about 25 Russian products. The LCBO carries several brands of Russian vodka such as Russian Standard Vodka, Beluga Russian Luxury Vodka, among others.

The LCBO will also be accepting the return of any Russian-produced products.

Tim Hortons ice cream will be in grocery stores next month.

The ice cream will come in five flavours: birthday cake timbits, apple fritter, double chocolate donut (which will feature actual chunks of donut), salted caramel iced capp and fruit explosion.

It’ll be available at all the major chains No Frills, Real Canadian Super Store, Sobeys, Walmart, etc.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod