Good evening, here are the coronavirus updates you need to know tonight.
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In Canada, there have been at least 124,279 cases reported. In the last week 2,621 new cases were announced, 2% fewer than the previous week. There have also been at least 110,600 recoveries and 9,062 deaths. Health officials have administered more than 5,359,807 tests.
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Worldwide, there have been at least 22,678,483 cases confirmed and 793,698 deaths reported.
Sources: Canada data is compiled from government websites, Johns Hopkins and COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group; international data is from Johns Hopkins University.
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People wearing protective masks carry an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, for immersion off the coast of the Arabian sea during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, on Sunday. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
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The number of coronavirus infections in India crossed the 3 million mark, with 69,239 new cases reported on Sunday. Federal health ministry data showed the countrys case total, 3.04 million, was behind only the United States and Brazil.
India on Sunday issued guidelines to open up its media production industry with norms for social distancing, crowd management and sanitization. Film production and theatres had been shut nationwide after Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a more than two-month-long lockdown in March to curb spread of the virus.
Deaths in India from COVID-19 rose by 912 to 56,706.
In Ottawa
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Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is heading to Lebanon this week to get a firsthand look at the devastation caused by this months deadly explosions in Beirut.
The trip will mark Champagnes first overseas travel since March, when countries around the world, including Canada, closed their borders to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Conservative race: A record number of votes for the Conservative leadership race and malfunctioning mail-opening machines delayed the party from revealing the winner of the race on Sunday night. Results were initially scheduled to be revealed around 6 p.m. ET.
Even if an election doesnt come soon, the next Conservative leader will take over during a rocky time in Ottawa. As the governing Liberals turn their attention to economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Conservatives will seek to assert themselves as the countrys voice of fiscal discipline.
Canadas largest banks are expected to report improved third-quarter earnings thanks in part to deferred payments on troubled loans and easing pressure to build reserves against losses. But with persistent challenges still to come, the rebound could amount to a head fake, as one banking analyst put it.
The banks capital levels could also stabilize or even improve slightly after taking a second-quarter dip. And surging trading activity, as well as demand to issue new debt, could help capital markets divisions deliver generous returns for the second consecutive quarter.
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Yet some of the scars the pandemic is carving into banks balance sheets may be harder to erase.
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For the bookworm : Margaret Atwoods September book club pick is Obsidian by Thomas King
Join The Globe and Mail on Thursday, September 24, for a livestream conversation between Margaret Atwood and Thomas King.
Margaret Atwood is returning to host the next Globe and Mail Book Club and has selected as her author-guest Thomas King, whose work she has championed since the early days of his career. Atwood first reviewed King long before he was named to the Order of Canada and won the Governor-Generals Award, the RBC Taylor Prize for his 2012 book The Inconvenient Indian.
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Coronavirus Update: B.C. toughens its tone on COVID-19 warnings as cases resurge - The Globe and Mail
