Canada

With restaurants, bars and gyms set to reopen in a week with strict restrictions, business owners who haven’t gotten the green light say they feel puzzled by the government’s relaunch timeline. Movie theatres and indoor entertainment centres are among the businesses waiting until the second, third and fourth stages of...

Ontario’s education minister said an announcement on schools reopening in COVID-19 hotspots will be revealed in the coming days. During a press conference on Monday, Stephen Lecce responded to a question on when schools will reopen in hotspots, saying, “It’s important for students to be in schools. We’ll be looking...

Ontario is reporting 1,969 cases of COVID-19 Monday and 36 deaths after completing just 30,359 tests in the previous day. The new cases include 886 in Toronto — which may be an overcount due to a data entry issue, the province notes — 330 in Peel and 128 in York...

Waterloo Region Public Health reported 42 new COVID-19 cases on Monday as the number of active cases continues to drop. The latest cases bring the region's total caseload to 9,474. January saw more than two weeks of case increases of 100 or more, but the region's daily case increases have...

Quebec's health minister says the province will gradually resume some of the surgeries that have been delayed due to COVID-19 as the number of people hospitalized with the virus continues to drop. Christian Dube says on Twitter that there are 200 fewer people hospitalized with COVID-19 than there were a...

Ottawa Public Health is reporting another drop in active cases of COVID-19 and the testing positivity rate in Ottawa. OPH added 22 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday. On Sunday, Ottawa Public Health reported 46 new cases. According to OPH's COVID-19 dashboard, the city has seen 13,358 total laboratory-confirmed...

Quebec public health is reporting its lowest daily COVID-19 increase over the past 11 weeks. According to the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, 890 new cases have been added to the provincial total over the past day, the province’s lowest such increase since November 16 when 982...

Four COVID-19-related deaths and 238 new coronavirus cases were reported Sunday in Saskatchewan. Health officials said two deaths were people in their 60s — one in the far northwest and the other in the southeast zone. One person in their 50s in the northwest zone and a person in the Regina...

Ontario’s most updated figures, released Sunday morning, show the province has registered 1,848 new diagnosed cases of COVID-19, including 43 deaths. In the region covered by Ottawa Public Health, the agency has recorded 46 new cases, based on data up to mid-afternoon Saturday. There were no no deaths locally. According to...

Alberta reported 461 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and eight deaths. Active cases in the province dropped once again, down 25 to 7,505. Three of the deaths were in the Edmonton zone in people ranging in age from their 70s to their 90s. Four of the deaths were in the Calgary...