Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, made her Monday update from home after coming down with a sore throat on Friday. She tested negative for COVID-19 over the weekend but will remain at home until her symptoms subside.
“I don’t want to pass on whatever it is...
Toronto’s top doctor had little to say about inflated COVID-19 data released by Toronto Public Health.
Speaking Monday at a press briefing, Dr. Eileen de Villa declined to answer direct questions about how and why unreported case data from earlier this year was included in daily new infection numbers late...
Public Health reported one new case of COVID-19 on Friday.
The province said the new case, an individual 19 and under in Zone 5 (Campbellton region), is self-isolating and under investigation.
The number of confirmed cases in New Brunswick is 350 and 320 have recovered, five more than reported on Thursday.
According...
A couple living in Durham Region have been charged with public-health related offences after they discovered they had the new COVID-19 variant by a fluke, CBC News reports.
Currently, Ontario’s testing for the variant from the U.K., known as B117, is only done in special circumstances, such as knowing the...
If Montrealers fail to follow public health guidelines, the metropolitan area could see a dangerous spike in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 by July, according to the latest projections by government-affiliated experts.
The projections also suggest that if, on the other hand, a large majority of Montrealers continue to...
On Thursday, Quebec reported 91 new fatalities, increasing its death toll to 4,885.
In a press release, officials said that 26 of those deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours. The other 65 occurred before May 28.
Along with the recent victims, the province announced 259 new cases...
Five new cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Saskatchewan’s latest 24-hour stretch, increasing the total case count to 943.
For the second straight day, the province has removed cases that were announced on July 11 (three cases today, and one Saturday).
Of the recently identified cases, one is in the...
The City of Toronto have made two additional maps available online, which show the percent positivity and testing rates by neighbourhood.
The Rustic neighbourhood in Toronto, north of Lawrence Ave. W to Hwy. 401 between Jane St. and Culford Rd., has the highest percent positivity at 14.3 per cent the...
Amid rising COVID-19 case numbers, the Manitoba government has issued more targeted restrictions for the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, which come into effect on Monday, Oct. 19.
These new rules include:
Reducing gathering sizes to five people for both indoor and outdoor public and private gatherings. This excludes household members for...
