1 pm Canada’s top doctor says COVID-19 disease activity is on the decline, but variants of concern threaten set back the country’s progress in flattening the curve in the second wave.
Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said today there have been 826,924 cases of COVID-19 in Canada, including 21,311...
Another 16 people in Ontario have succumbed to the ravages of COVID-19, 10 of them residents of nursing homes, provincial authorities reported on Sunday.
The province has now had almost 4,000 people die from the novel coronavirus, data shows.
Authorities reported 1,677 new infections, a drop of around 10 per cent...
The Government of B.C. has fulfilled its goal of hiring more than 1,200 contact tracers over the past few months—but as the province continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, its recruitment efforts are not stopping there.
As of Thursday,1,235 people to date have been hired as part of...
Alberta casinos, along with other businesses, must shut down this week because of an increase in COVID-19 infection rates. The province has seen a significant increase in positive case counts, which was the catalyst for the new government mandate. New restrictions also include province-wide mask-wearing.
The Alberta Government announced the...
Alberta reported 57 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday during Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s first live health update in more than a week.
The new case results came back on roughly 5,000 tests for a 1.4 per cent positivity rate.
Hinshaw confirmed there were also 38 new variant cases detected in the province...
Manitoba declared two more outbreaks at Winnipeg schools and reported 291 more COVID-19 cases in the province on Tuesday, as another death linked to a more contagious coronavirus variant was also announced.
A man in his 40s from Winnipeg died due to the B117 coronavirus variant originally detected in the...
Ontario reported 2,005 new cases of the novel coronavirus Sunday, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 171,416.
“Locally, there are 572 new cases in Toronto, 331 in Peel, 207 in York Region and 140 in Windsor-Essex County,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said.
A total of 147,178 COVID-19...
