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“Every day we are seeing this delta variant driving Indonesia closer to the edge of a COVID-19 catastrophe,” said Jan Gelfand, head of the Indonesian delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The group said Tuesday that its coronavirus hospital in Bogor, outside of the capital Jakarta, was “overflowing” and emergency tents had been set up to be able to house more patients.

It was a similar scene at other hospitals near the capital, including at the Bekasi city hospital that had 90 per cent of its beds filled.

The surge in Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous nation, is being blamed in part on the delta variant of the virus, which is thought to be more contagious.

-From The Associated Press, last updated at 7:10 a.m. ET

What’s happening across Canada

As of early Tuesday morning, Canada had reported 1,414,156 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 7,838 considered active. A CBC News tally of deaths stood at 26,238. More than 36.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far across the country, according to CBC’s vaccine tracker.

In Atlantic Canada on Monday, health officials reported a total of six new cases of COVID-19, including:

There were no new cases reported in Prince Edward Island on Monday.

In Quebec, health officials on Monday reported 76 new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths. The update came as the province further loosened public health restrictions.

Ontario on Monday reported three additional deaths and 210 new cases of COVID-19 — the lowest single-day case number since last September.

In the Prairie provinces on Monday, Manitoba reported no new deaths and 61 new cases of COVID-19. Dr. Brent Roussin,the chief provincial public health officer, urged people to keep contacts low even as case numbers come down.

“We’re still seeing transmission, we’re still reporting cases, we’re still — unfortunately — reporting severe outcomes, we still have people in hospital,” Roussin said Monday. 

WATCH |  Dr. Brent Roussin says people need to stay cautious about contacts even as case numbers decline in Manitoba: 

Dr. Brent Roussin says it’s important for Manitobans to reduce their contacts because the province is still at risk. 0:55

In Saskatchewan, health officials reported no new deaths on Monday and 17 additional cases of COVID-19, the lowest daily case number the province had seen since October.

Alberta health officials on Monday reported 31 new cases of COVID-19. The province, which was reporting figures for the weekend, also reported two additional deaths.

Across the North, Yukon health officials reported 24 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, with the majority in Whitehorse.

“Over the coming weeks, we will continue to see the case count rise. We must all prepare ourselves for things to look different over the weeks to come,” Yukon’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Brendan Hanley said in a statement.

There were no new cases reported in Nunavut, while health officials in the Northwest Territories reported one new case in a non-resident.

In British Columbia, health officials on Monday reported 38 new cases of COVID-19. The update, which covered the weekend, also included five additional deaths.  

-From CBC News and The Canadian Press, last updated at 7 a.m. ET

What’s happening around the world

As of early Tuesday morning, more than 181.4 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide, according to a coronavirus tracking tool maintained by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University. The reported global death toll stood at more than 3.9 million.

In the Americas, the United States said it will donate one million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Paraguay.

Colombia, meanwhile, said it will receive a U.S. donation of 2.5 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Janssen, the pharmaceutical unit of Johnson & Johnson.

In the Asia-Pacific region, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte prolonged restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital and nearby provinces until mid-July and retained stricter curbs in central and southern areas, an official said on Tuesday.

Australia reported a slight rise in COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, while officials in several states tightened movement curbs and pushed for vaccinations to limit flare-ups of the highly infectious delta variant. After months in which it had nearly stamped out the virus, Australia is battling the variant in five of its eight states and territories, just two weeks after an infection in key city Sydney involving a limousine driver of an overseas airline crew.

In Europe, Russian authorities have reported 652 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday — the highest daily tally in the pandemic. The new record comes as Russia struggles to cope with a surge in infections and deaths and low vaccine uptake. Although Russia was among the first countries to announce and deploy a coronavirus vaccine, only about 14 per cent of the population has received at least one shot.

Greece will offer its young people a €150 (roughly $220 Cdn) cash card and a free month of phone data to get their first COVID-19 shot, in a government drive to boost vaccination rates in the build-up to the holidays.

COVID-19 infections in Africa will likely exceed previous peaks within days, underscoring an urgent need to accelerate vaccine supplies and financing to the region, International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva said.

Tanzania will spend $470 million US buying vaccines and supporting economic sectors hit hard by the coronavirus, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.

In the Middle East,  Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates, has announced that a wide range of public places will soon be accessible only to those vaccinated against the coronavirus in a bid to encourage more people to get shots.

The Emirati government on Monday said that starting Aug. 20, authorities will begin restricting access to shopping malls, restaurants, cafes, sporting activities, museums, gyms, schools and universities. The unvaccinated will effectively be barred from entering any business in the city except for supermarkets and pharmacies.

Abu Dhabi has already rolled out a “green pass” system that limits public access to those who have either received the shot or can show a negative virus test.

It comes as the country increasingly bets its economic reopening on its speedy vaccination campaign. The government says at least 93 per cent of Abu Dhabi’s population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.

-From The Associated Press and Reuters, last updated at 7:05 a.m. ET