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NEWSCAST - Monday 25th January 2021

Pritha Mukherji

COVID-19 UPDATE:
- Ontario reported another 1,958 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, as experts heading the province's vaccination campaign outlined how they are responding to delays in the delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. 
CAMPUS:
- Western’s chancellor Linda Hasenfratz will remain at her post after she came under fire last week for traveling over the holidays.
LOCAL AND NATIONAL:
- Maj-Gen Dany Fordin, the man in charge of Canada’s coronavirus vaccine rollout logistics has confirmed that the country will not receive any Pfizer vaccine doses during the week of Jan. 25, 
INTERNATIONAL:
- Facebook has deleted a post and suspended a chatbot on the page of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's account for violating its policy, it says.
WEATHER:
- On Tuesday, expect a temperature of -1 degrees with a chance of snowfall. Moving onto Wednesday expect temperatures to be -1 degrees with sunny skies. Expect temperatures to be at a max. Of 0 degrees.