The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
2 p.m.
The Manitoba government is seeking public input on a potential easing of COVID-19 restrictions on business openings and public gatherings.
Dr. Brent Roussin, the province's chief public health officer, says daily case numbers have been dropping and the strain on hospitals has been easing.
The government has put up an online survey that asks people what they would like to see changed, and a final decision is expected late next week.
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1:35 p.m.
Manitoba is reporting 191 new COVID-19 cases today and five additional deaths.
The new cases continue to be especially pronounced in the northern health region.
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1 p.m.
Police in Ottawa say they have charged a 62-year-old man from California for violating the quarantine rules meant to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
In a statement, they say the man arrived in Canada Jan. 6 and was required to stay isolated until Jan. 19, but was visited "on several occasions and for extended periods of time" by an Ottawa resident.
They don't name the man or say what his relationship is to his visitor, but say he came from California, a state struggling more than most with the novel coronavirus.
The section of the Quarantine Act that forbids visits to people in quarantine carries a potential maximum punishment of six months in jail and a $750,000 fine.
The police statement says the visitor was let off with a warning.
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12:42
New Brunswick is reporting 25 new cases of COVID-19 today across almost all of its health zones.
Health officials say the new cases are under investigation and the Miramichi area is the only region without active reported infections.
The province says it has 256 active cases and four people are in hospital with the disease.
New Brunswick remains at the second-highest pandemic alert level.
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11:55
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a temporary delay in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will not derail efforts to vaccinate Canadians by September.
Trudeau says Pfizer's production issues will not affect plans to have enough vaccines available for every Canadian who wants one by the fall.
He says "it's only expected that there will be a few bumps along the way."
Pfizer Canada says modifications at its Belgium facility will affect deliveries for all countries it supplies.
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10:57
Nova Scotia is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 today.
Officials say one case was identified in the northern zone and one in the central zone, which includes Halifax.
They say both cases involve close contacts of previously reported infections.
Nova Scotia has 32 active reported cases of the disease.
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10:30 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 100 deaths linked to COVID-19 today after a data entry error in one of its public health units.
Forty-six deaths from Middlesex-London were added to the province's daily count that actually happened earlier in the pandemic.
The province is also reporting 2,998 new cases of COVID-19.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 800 of those new cases are in Toronto, 618 in Peel Region and 250 in York Region.
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9:56 a.m.
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is on track to hit 10,000 new daily infections of COVID-19 by the end of January.
New modelling shows the total number of cases could reach 796,630 by Jan. 24 and another 2,000 people could die.
Tam says there is rapid and widespread community spread of COVID-19, and governments and individuals need to do everything they can to reduce contacts.
She says measures to reduce contacts must be kept in place long enough to prevent an immediate resurgence of infections as soon as the lockdown measures are lifted.
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9:40 a.m.
U.S. drug-maker Pfizer is temporarily cutting back vaccine deliveries to Canada because of issues with its European production lines.
Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Pfizer thinks it will still be able to deliver four million doses by the end of March, but it's no longer guaranteed.
Canada has received about 380,000 doses of the vaccine so far, and was supposed to get another 400,000 this month, followed by almost two million doses in February.
There is no update yet on what the new deliveries will be.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2021.
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