South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday his country will impose stricter measures in the face of a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases that indicate the virus is "surging again" in Africa's worst-affected nation.
Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams will retire June 25.
Saskatchewan begins the first of its three-step plan to reopen on Sunday, easing some measures enacted to help curb the spread of COVID-19.
Reasons people cited for using cannabis, according to a recent Statistics Canada report, include increased stress, boredom and loneliness.
A southern Manitoba hospital physician says staff are exhausted by a recent crush of admissions, but they're also up against something else that's draining energy and morale.
Ontario pharmacists who expected to spend the weekend racing to administer 45,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire have been given a reprieve from Health Canada.
Some experts say Canada should shift to prioritizing second doses of COVID-19 vaccines now due to an increase in supply, a drop in COVID-19 levels and the growing threat of more contagious coronavirus variants that threaten to jeopardize the progress we’ve made.
New restrictions will be taking effect in Manitoba on Saturday to curb the spread of COVID-19, a day after federal health officials said the third wave of the pandemic is subsiding across Canada.
Premier Doug Ford is scheduled to hold a news conference at 10:30 a.m. ET. Ford's office says he will be joined by the Minister of Health Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.
A German research team has put forward a potential solution to prevent the rare, serious blood clots caused by the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, but other scientists warn it's too early to draw conclusions about the mechanism behind the potentially deadly condition.
Top officials in Nova Scotia are set to unveil the province's reopening plan later Friday, a day after Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick presented multi-step plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions.
Surgery delays and a steep drop off in ER visits, contributed to a spike in excess deaths during the pandemic beyond COVID-19 deaths. Yet for some common conditions, the drop in ER visits had no impact on patient outcomes.
Quebecers who have received a shot of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine will be able to get their second dose sooner than expected, as the province is now shrinking that interval from 12 weeks to eight.
Manitoba students who are currently studying from home will learn later Thursday whether they are headed back to class, just days after students across most of Alberta shifted back to in-school learning.
The Public Health Agency of Canada was not adequately prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic because it ignored internal audits that found serious gaps in the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS), Canada's auditor general reported today.
Diagnosed with COVID-19 last summer and soon admitted to hospital, Peter Simard of Gatineau, Que., thought he was going to die, and so did his doctors. Although he was put in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, his family never gave up hope for a miracle. After nearly nine months of hospitals and rehab, he's finally back home.
Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the United States.
The Japanese government on Tuesday denied that a U.S. warning for Americans to avoid travelling to Japan because of a surge in COVID-19 cases would have an impact on Olympians wanting to compete in the postponed Tokyo Games.
The COVID-19 pandemic is being perpetuated by a "scandalous inequity" in vaccine distribution, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday as he set new targets for protecting people in the poorest countries.
Manitoba continues to battle the highest COVID-19 infection rate per capita in Canada, as the country reaches a vaccination milestone where half the national population has received a first dose.
While helping out at pop-up vaccination clinics in Toronto, Dr. Hemant Shah has seen first hand a growing concern about the Moderna vaccine. He and other doctors across Ontario say they are having to counter a belief among the public that one vaccine is better than another.
Canada's deputy chief public health officer is urging people to follow health protocols this Victoria Day weekend to avoid a post-holiday spike in COVID-19 cases.
Canadians are very lucky. Just a few months after the vaccination campaign was assailed by politicians and pundits as a disaster, this country of 38 million people had received 23 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Thursday morning. Millions more doses are expected in the coming weeks.
As kids and teenagers become eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, many families have questions. Why are teens getting first doses before seniors get their second? Will kids need a smaller dose? Doctors answer your questions.
Much of Canada is on the verge of reopening again, with hard-hit provinces lifting lockdowns and mapping out a path to something vaguely resembling normal, while trying desperately to avoid making the mistakes of the past.
Ontario is moving ahead with providing a second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to some who received a first shot, officials said Friday.
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is set to give an update on COVID-19 on Thursday as the province struggles with a lack of intensive care unit capacity that has forced the transfer of some patients to Thunder Bay, Ont.
Premier Doug Ford is set to unveil details of the province's latest reopening plan around 3 p.m. ET as Ontario continues to see signs that the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is gradually receding.
How will Canadians get their second COVID-19 vaccine doses? Many say there's a lack of information from local health officials and confusion over a patchwork of different booking systems and access points, from pop-up clinics to mass immunization centres to pharmacies.
Quebec has become the first province to release a full-fledged plan with dates to loosen restrictions. The timeline has provided some much-welcomed hope to the public, but experts are sounding a note of caution.
Alberta has given first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than half of its eligible population and new case numbers are trending downward — but the test positivity rate is still too high, the province's top doctor says.
Canada's first homegrown vaccine for COVID-19 is showing promising antibody results in hundreds of participants in a Phase 2 trial and could be ready for a final authorization request this summer, the drugmaker says.
Canada's national vaccine advisory panel has officially recommended Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for anyone aged 12 and up, according to Dr. Theresa Tam, the country's chief public health officer.
To avoid leaving Canadians entirely dependent on foreign vaccine makers when the next pandemic hits, the federal government today announced a $200-million investment in a Mississauga, Ont.-based company to build a plant that can churn out millions of mRNA vaccines.
India's total virus cases since the pandemic began swept past 25 million as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 fatalities in the last 24 hours.
A COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline showed a robust immune response in early-stage clinical trial results, enabling them to move to a late-stage study, the companies announced on Monday.
Canada has a new COVID-19 hotspot, as Manitoba has overtaken Alberta as the province with the highest COVID-19 infection rate per capita.
Pubs and restaurants across much of the U.K. opened for indoor service for the first time since early January on Monday, even as the prime minister urged people to be cautious amid the spread of a more contagious COVID-19 variant.
Canada's approach of delaying and even mixing different COVID-19 vaccine doses may seem unorthodox on the surface, but multiple experts say they're rooted in decades of science, backed up by emerging research, and could be preventing deaths.
A Calgary woman was out thousands of dollars and sick with worry after trying to ship what she hoped would be a life-saving oxygen device to her family in Mexico who were ill with COVID-19. The package never got to them, and UPS wouldn't take responsibility until Go Public started asking questions.
A healthy 43-year-old father from the Langley area is fighting after emergency surgery to deal with a rare complicated blood clot in his abdomen that's left him life-long complications after a two metre section of his bowel was removed.
India's two biggest cities have reported a drop in daily infections, but the government is warning that the devastating surge is spreading in rural areas, where nearly two-thirds of India's 1.4 billion people live.
Vaccines are now rolling out across Canada at a rapid pace as supply has finally begun to catch up with demand. While we're still far from returning to normal life, Canadians are more and more protected from the worst of COVID-19 with each passing day.
Ontario is investigating two Toronto long-term care homes where the Canadian military reported residents died of neglect, not COVID-19, during outbreaks last year.
The emergence of the B1617 variant — which was first identified in India — in parts of northern England and London has prompted some scientists to call for a slowdown in the U.K.'s plans to reestablish normalcy.
A Toronto plastic surgeon and self-styled social media influencer has had his licence to practise medicine suspended.
Republican lawmakers recently passed a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for minors. That means the care some transgender kids see as essential to helping them become their true selves will soon be prohibited for anyone under the age of 18, leaving families with a difficult choice: stop treatment or leave the state.
Canadians who have been vaccinated with one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can socialize with close family and friends outdoors over the summer months, Canada's chief public health officer said Friday.
Canadian vaccine experts say a British study that showed a boost in immune response among seniors who received their second Pfizer-BioNTech shot later supports Canada's dose-spacing strategy.
Since the start of this year, more than 2,000 patient transfers have taken place across Ontario, including many without family consent. While the policy may be helping boost hospital capacity in regions with surging COVID-19 cases, it's also taking an emotional toll on families and health-care workers.
