NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 05, 2021

Q: The Canadian province of Ontario has entered a limited lockdown for 28 days, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise and more dangerous virus variants take hold. Where is Ontario?

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Q: What state bordering Ontario is reporting biggest surge in new coronavirus infections in the United States?

A. Maine

B. Michigan

C. North Dakota

D. Vermont


B. Michigan has more recent cases per capita than any other state. Like neighboring Ontario, Michigan has has seen a rapid rise in much more infectious and dangerous variants of the COVID-19 virus. Maine and Vermont border the Canadian province of Quebec to the east of Ontario, and North Dakota borders Manitoba to the west.


Q: Michigan is reporting an average of more than 5,600 cases a day, while Ontario reported more than 2,500 new cases on the day it announced new restrictions last week. Which has more people?

A. Ontario

B. Michigan


A. Ontario’s current estimated population is more than 14 million people, making it the most populous province. Michigan’s population is estimated at about 10 million. Ontario’s partial lockdown bans indoor and outdoor restaurant dining and limits retail store capacity to 25% and supermarkets to 50%. Michigan has a mask mandate and limits restaurant capacity to 50%


Q: Many doctors and other health experts are urging the both state and provincial governments to do much more to curb the outbreaks. What is the capital of Ontario?

A. Kingston

B. Ottawa

C. Toronto

D. York


C. Toronto is the capital of Ontario and Canada’s most populous city with about 2.7 million people. Ottawa in eastern Ontario is Canada’s national capital. The former town of York, which became Toronto, was the capital of Upper Canada, and Kingston was the capital of West Canada. What was Upper and then West Canada became part of the province of Ontario.


Q: Michigan and much of Ontario became part of what British colony in 1763?

A. Illinois

B. Minnesota

C. Ohio

D. Quebec


D. After British forces conquered French Canada in the Seven Year’s War, Great Britain created the Province of Quebec which extended from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. It also included parts or all of the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.