Tag Archives: Health

TORONTO - Ontario will go into lockdown on Boxing Day in an effort to bring soaring COVID-19 cases under control, a move the province announced Monday after health advisers said thousands of infection...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (All times Eastern): 6:15 p.m. British Columbia provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says they're starting to see a levelling off of the COVID-...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Monday Dec. 21, 2020. There are 515,314 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 515,314 confirmed cases (77,361 active, 423,...

VANCOUVER - When the first COVID-19 cases trickled into Canada, little was known about the novel coronavirus. Almost one year later, experts have made major strides in cracking the virus's code and un...

OTTAWA - The federal government is restricting travel from the U.K. for 72 hours in an effort to keep a contagious new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 out of Canada. The travel ban comes into...

Nunavut is reporting its first two COVID-19 deaths. The territory's premier, health minister and chief public health officer say in a joint statement that a resident of Arviat was transported to a sou...

TORONTO - Fear of contracting COVID-19 in hospitals or doctors' offices has prompted some moms-to-be to choose to take on midwives and have their babies at home, midwifery groups say. A recent survey ...

A new Canada-wide phone line aims to prevent deadly overdoses by connecting anyone who is alone and using drugs with peers who can quickly call for help if things take a bad turn. "People who have exp...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival. But that's turned out...

OTTAWA - Canada's top public health officer has been a model of stoicism through the first year of COVID-19, but Dr. Theresa Tam still got a little choked up last week when the first Canadians were in...