Canada could be administering 3.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses a week, but well into what the federal government has coined the ‘ramp-up’ phase of Canada’s vaccine rollout, the number of shots coming into Canada most weeks is still below what provinces and territories are capable of putting into arms,...
Officials with Big White Ski Resort say they will "act quickly and decisively to address the living conditions of our staff residing outside of our managed residences." Senior vice-president Michael J. Ballingall made the statement after Interior Health revealed a cluster of 60 COVID-19 cases at the ski hill. "Big White...
New Brunswick reported two new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, both of which are in the Edmundston region. The cases involve two individuals in their 70s. As of Saturday, 41 cases remain active in the province. To date, New Brunswick has confirmed 1,430 cases of COVID-19. Of those, 1,362 cases have...
A new survey suggests seniors in Quebec are much happier about their province’s vaccine rollout than their neighbours are about how things are going in Ontario. The survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies shows 61 per cent of Quebec respondents reported being satisfied with the province’s daily...
The picture of a Chinese surgeon sleeping in the operation room while re-attaching a patient’s arm went viral on the country’s social media, recently. In the photo, orthopedic surgeon Luo Shanpeng, who works at No. 6 People's Hospital of Guiyang in south-eastern China's Guizhou Province, was seen squatting down by...
In consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health and the Public Health Measures Table, the Ontario government is taking immediate action to respond to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases and is updating the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open Framework, by lowering the thresholds for each level in...
Manitoba is reporting the lowest COVID-19 case count it has seen since mid-October. On Monday, the province announced 53 new cases had been identified – the lowest single-day case count since October 18 – when 44 cases were reported. While COVID-19 case counts are dropping to October levels, hospitalizations remain much...
Montreal’s acute-care health network is being hit harder by COVID-19 now than during the first wave of the pandemic, says the chief of the intensive-care unit at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. The main difference between the first and second waves is hospitals today have far fewer nurses and respiratory therapists available to...
New Brunswick is reporting eight new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. One of the new cases is located in the Moncton region and involves an individual between 30 and 39 years old. Two cases are located in the Saint John region and one is an individual between the age of 50...
PEOPLE INFECTED WITH the coronavirus could remain immune for years after their recovery, a new study suggests, offering news that could quell worries about waning immunity as potential vaccines are nearing availability. Scientists at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in California found that eight months after participants had been...