COVID-19 Cases Trend Upward Across Canada Amid Vaccine Supply Concerns

COVID-19 Cases Trend Upward Across Canada Amid Vaccine Supply Concerns
A FedEx worker loads the 255,600 doses of the Moderna COVID‑19 vaccine which came from Europe into a freezer trailer to be transported during the COVID-19 pandemic at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on March 24, 2021. Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press
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TORONTO—New cases of COVID-19 infections across Canada are trending upward, public health authorities reported on Wednesday, amid new concerns over vaccine supplies.

Thousands of new cases on average and 31 deaths were being reported daily, the Public Health Agency of Canada said in its latest update. The bottom line, the agency said, was that people still face a serious risk of contracting the disease.