Keep your guard up, Tam urges Canadians as COVID-19 disrupts Easter for second year
Canada's chief public health officer is urging people to keep their guard up as COVID-19 disrupts Easter celebrations for a second year.
Canada's chief public health officer is urging people to keep their guard up as COVID-19 disrupts Easter celebrations for a second year.
An Ontario woman aged in her 40s is dead after she contracted COVID-19 from her husband who got sick after being told to go to work despite there being a known COVID-19 outbreak at the factory where he was employed, her doctor says.
Doctors are worried that coronavirus may end up being like influenza, which requires a new vaccine every year both because the circulating strains mutate fast and because immunity from the vaccine wears off quickly. But experts say studies suggest Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are eliciting a long-lasting immune response.
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Quebec reported Sunday that 1,154 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total number of infections to 316,112 since the start of the pandemic. Health-care professionals have now administered 1,529,541 vaccinations.
Ontario's police watchdog is investigating an incident in Ottawa's east end that resulted in an Ottawa police officer shooting a man.
A senior Jordanian official on Sunday accused the country's former crown prince of conspiring with foreign elements in a "malicious plot" that threatened national security.
Canada's top military procurement official says there are no plans to change directions on the construction of a fleet of new Navy warships despite a recent warning about escalating costs from Parliament's budget watchdog.
Despite concerns the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)'s change in directive about the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine is causing vaccine hesitancy, the vice-chair says it was done in the name of transparency.
Canada hit a grim milestone on Saturday when the country surpassed one million COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.