Scott Thompson Show

Ontario reported 1,589 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, a new single-day record of cases to date, bringing the provincial total to 105,501. Monday’s case count marks the largest single-day increase in cases, ahead of 1,588 recorded on Saturday — the previous largest single-day high. On Sunday, 1,534 new cases were recorded. The record-breaking case count comes on the day that Toronto and Peel Region move into lockdown.  Guest: Ahmad Firas Khalid, medical doctor and health policy expert - Now some good news. There is another vaccine on the horizon! AstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trials showed its coronavirus vaccine was up to 90 per cent effective, giving public health officials hope they may soon have access to a vaccine that is cheaper and easier to distribute than some of its rivals.  The results are based on interim analysis of trials in the U.K. and Brazil of a vaccine developed by Oxford University and manufactured by AstraZeneca. No hospitalizations or severe cases of COVID-19 were repor