TORONTO — With long-term care COVID-19 cases and deaths accounting for a dramatic proportion of Canada’s pandemic numbers, some are calling for an end to for-profit long-term care, but at least one doctor says the entire system is underfunded. The numbers...
OTTAWA — A recent study out of France has found that children have reported a 700-per-cent spike in reported eye exposures to hand sanitizer during the spring and summer months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, published Thursday in JAMA Ophthalmology,...
TORONTO — Snowbirds hoping to skip the line in Canada by flying to Florida for COVID-19 vaccines now face a tougher set of rules aimed at snuffing vaccine tourism. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that anyone who owns property in...
EDMONTON — Having a conversation with someone in close quarters while infected with COVID-19 could be just as dangerous as coughing near them, new research published Wednesday suggests. According to the study, completed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and...
OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa is working with the provinces to prioritize vaccinating Indigenous people against COVID-19. Miller told a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday that there is a need to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to Indigenous people...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government decided Tuesday to extend the country’s coronavirus lockdown to the end of the month after a spike in infections, despite an intensive vaccination campaign. Israel began its third lockdown in late December and tightened it on...
China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp that can house more than 4,000 people, after an outbreak of COVID-19 this month that has left tens of millions of people under strict lockdown. The quarantine camp is located on the...
NEW DELHI — India began supplying coronavirus vaccines to its neighbouring countries on Wednesday, as the world’s largest vaccine making nation strikes a balance between maintaining enough doses to inoculate its own people and helping developing countries without the capacity to...
TORONTO — More variants of the novel coronavirus are being detected worldwide, ramping up fears in Canada around the increased transmission some of these variants could bring. They’re known as “variants of concern” according to the World Health Organization, and since...
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Authorities in Austria said Tuesday that they are looking into reports of alleged queue-jumping, including by several mayors, in the government’s coronavirus vaccination program. Under Austria’s phased vaccine rollout, priority has been given to residents and staff at...
