MILITARY, CIVILIAN HEALTH WORKERS OFF TO HOT ZONES

Dozens of health professionals from both the military and federal public service are being deployed to some provinces as the relentless third wave of COVID-19 in Canada continues. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says help is on the way to Ontario and Nova Scotia and discussions are underway with Alberta. That includes 60 Canadian Armed Forces service members deploying to Nova Scotia to help out at COVID-19 testing centres. That province reported a record-breaking 96 new cases Tuesday, 30 more than on Monday. Trudeau says federal support is paying for six nurses and three doctors from Newfoundland and Labrador, who arrived in Ontario Tuesday to help in hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area. A second team will replace them in two weeks.