A devastating outbreak linked to the British variant of COVID-19 at a long-term care home north of Toronto has now infected just more than 300 individuals, heightening fears of community spread. Ninety...
COVID-19 news jan. 28: cases keep climbing at Barrie, Ont. long-term care home
A devastating outbreak linked to the British variant of COVID-19 at Roberta Place in Barrie, Ont. has now infected just more than 300 individuals, heightening fears of community spread.

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Canadian COVID-19 news
Manitoba’s decision to broaden domestic travel restrictions this week, as COVID-19 variants spread and Canada’s vaccine delivery slows, is adding pressure to provinces that say they cannot legally limit...
In the quest to keep COVID-19 patients out of hospital, the ideal treatment would be a cheap, widely available pill that could be taken immediately after a positive test. Quebec researchers think they’ve...
As the federal government prepares to slap new restrictions on international travel, Health Canada data suggest a worrying uptick of infections directly connected to foreign arrivals. While travel exposures...
Globe and Mail coverage about Coronavirus
Quebec’s statistics agency is reporting that the number of deaths in the province jumped 10 per cent last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Institut de la statistique du Quebec noted today in its...
Ontario is reporting 2,093 new cases of COVID-19 and 56 more deaths linked to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 700 new cases in Toronto, 331 in Peel Region, and 228 in York The...
President Biden eyes early warning system similar to the one Canada
As Canada looks to rebuild its pandemic early warning system, which was curtailed less than a year before COVID-19 hit, the Biden administration has made it an urgent priority to create a similar operation...
As a global pandemic began to take root in February, China held a series of backchannel conversations with Canada, lobbying the federal government to keep its borders open. With the virus already taking...
What is the controversy? The controversy that has engulfed the Public Health Agency of Canada and its pandemic early warning system, known as the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, or GPHIN, is...
On the morning of Dec. 31, as word of a troubling new outbreak in China began to reverberate around the world, in news reports and on social media, a group of analysts inside the federal government and...