Canada surpasses 20,000 daily COVID-19 cases

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: For the first time ever, Canada surpassed 20,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, setting yet another daily record.
Of the 20,699 cases reported on Thursday, the vast majority are in Ontario and Quebec.
It took 694 days from the first reported case of the novel coronavirus in Canada to reach 10,000 daily cases, a bar set on Dec. 19. It only took four days after that to reach 20,000 daily cases.
Cases have risen swiftly this month as more people spend time indoors and gather for the holidays, and as the new Omicron variant continues to spread. Provinces also have attempted to make vaccine booster shots and rapid tests more accessible over the holiday season.
Most of the new cases, or 4,392, involved people who are fully vaccinated .