The province reported 95 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths Saturday. The majority of new infections – 59 – are in Northern Health, according to the COVID-19 bulletin. Thirty-one are in Winnipeg, three in Interlake-Eastern and two in Southern Health. Prairie Mountain Health reported no new cases Saturday. The three Manitobans...
Ontario’s top doctor says the province will now allow second doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be administered. Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, said the second dose administration will begin with those who received their first dose between March 10 and 19. “Nothing is more important than...
Manitoba's health minister says navigating the pandemic in 2020 has been unlike anything he has experienced in political life ... or life in general. In a year-end interview, Cameron Friesen says governments around the world have spent most of this year scrambling to try and understand what they were up...
One day after seeing its lowest daily case count in six weeks, Ottawa is seeing an uptick in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases in the city. However, trends including the number of active cases and the weekly average of cases per capita continue to improve. Ottawa Public Health said...
For the fourth consecutive day, Ontario is reporting more than 700 new cases of COVID-19 as the average daily case count in the province continues to rise. Provincial health officials are reporting 741 new COVID-19 infections today, up from 728 on Saturday and 666 one week ago. The seven-day rolling average...
Ontario is reporting 4,212 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday. The provincial total now stands at 429,123. Wednesday’s case count has jumped back into the 4,000s after Tuesday recorded 3,469 new cases, although more tests were processed. Prior to that, cases were above 4,000 for the last six days. According to Wednesday’s...
Pfizer on Friday committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organization-backed effort to get affordable shots to poor and middle-income countries. The deal is a boost to the global program known as COVAX, as wealthy nations have snapped up...
Manitoba public health officials advise five additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported Sunday. The deaths include: A man in his 70s from the Interlake-Eastern health region linked to the outbreak at Kin Place Personal Care Home A woman in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region A woman in her...
New Brunswick has lost another resident to underlying complications related to COVID-19, Dr. Jennifer Russell reported Tuesday. The individual was a resident of Edmundston's Manoir Belle Vue, which has seen 86 cases of COVID-19, and was between the ages of 80 and 89, Russell said at a live-streamed update. There have...
The Northern Health region saw 71 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Friday, the same day provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry extended the current public health restrictions indefinitely. While the province has been making some headway in bringing the number of active COVID-19 cases down, 19 cases of the...