{"id":20398,"date":"2021-05-18T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=20398"},"modified":"2021-05-18T04:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T08:46:21","slug":"may-18-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2021\/05\/may-18-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"May 18, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 18th is the 138th day of 2021. There are 227 days remaining until the end of the year.<\/b><\/p>\n

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\"\"Ontario is expanding COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to anyone 18 and older starting this morning.<\/p>\n

The province expects to receive 2.2-million doses of vaccine this week, in part because Pfizer-BioNTech decided to send extra ahead of the May 24 weekend.<\/p>\n

\"\"The online portal will open at 8 am. Residents can book an appointment by calling the Provincial Vaccine Booking Line at 1-833-943-3900 or through the local channels at GetYourShotCK.ca<\/a> or 519-351-1010.<\/p>\n

Starting the week of May 31st, children between 12 and 17-years will be allowed to start booking their appointments through the provincial system.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"Ten new positive COVID-19 cases reported from the weekend Monday by Chatham-Kent Public Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were 14 recoveries, the total active cases is 32.<\/p>\n

There were 2,170 positive cases reported Monday across the province and 4 additional deaths. It’s the fewest new deaths the province has reported since March 22nd. The rolling seven-day average of new cases is down to 2,352, the lowest it has been since April 1st.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The investors of the former Navistar property will speak to the media today.<\/p>\n

Those involved and any plans have not been revealed.<\/p>\n

BlackburnNewsCK.com<\/a> will have more details as soon as they’re available this afternoon.<\/p>\n

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\"\"There’s a blood donor clinic today at Chatham-Kent YMCA<\/a> from 1-7.<\/p>\n

\"\"Book yours now at Blood.ca<\/a>, use the Give Blood app or call 1-888-2-DONATE. Donations are by appointment only, no walk-in appointments are available.<\/p>\n

There is no need to reschedule if you’ve been vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Your donation matters, book now and save a life.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"One of the world’s most popular singing competitions starts today.<\/p>\n

The annual Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> pits singers from member countries of the European Broadcasting Union against one another. The flamboyant international TV competition has been around since 1956.<\/p>\n

More attention was brought in 2020 when Will Ferrall’s movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga<\/a> was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 18th is the 138th day of 2021. There are 227 days remaining until the end of the year. Ontario is expanding COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to anyone 18 and older starting this morning. The province expects to receive 2.2-million doses of vaccine this week, in part because Pfizer-BioNTech decided to send extra ahead of the","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,2860,133,2327,26,1821,1822,2859,2861,2840,2790,2708,2658,1926],"class_list":["post-20398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things-you-need-to-know","tag-5thingsyouneedtoknow","tag-blackburnnewsck","tag-blood-donor-clinic","tag-chatham-kent-ymca","tag-ckmornings","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-eurovision-song-contest-the-story-of-fire-saga","tag-getyourshotck","tag-navistar","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccination-clinic","tag-ymca-southwestern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 21:59:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/943cksy.com\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2021\/05\/may-18-2021\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20402,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions\/20402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}