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Nova Scotia reported 22 new COVID-19 deaths in its latest weekly update. There were also 77 new hospitalizations for complications with virus in the seven-day period ending May 2.As of Wednesday, 66 hospitalizations remain active.The…

New Brunswick is reporting nine deaths related to COVID-19 and nearly 4,000 new positive PCR tests in its latest weekly update. For the week of March 27 to April 2, the number of hospitalizations also increased by 12 — to 78. There…

Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc will give a COVID-19 update Friday alongside public health officials as some provinces begin lifting pandemic mandates. Globalnews.ca…

Canada’s public health agency will hold an update on the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday morning. Globalnews.ca will be live streaming the federal update at 9:30 a.m. ET.The update comes after health officials warned Thursday the drop in…

Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says Canada is in crisis when it comes to COVID-19 PCR testing capacity, even as Ottawa struggles to make good on its promise to deliver 140 million rapid tests to provinces by the end of…

As parts of Canada see staggering rises in COVID-19 activity amid Omicron’s rapid spread, experts say the highly transmissible variant is training a spotlight on social inequities across the country. Dr. Amit Arya, a palliative…

The federal government is expected to provide an update on COVID-19 Friday morning as the Omicron variant continues to spread across Canada. Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Infrastructure Dominic LeBlanc and…

The acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic could end by July 2022 if every country ends up vaccinating at least 70 per cent of its population, the World Health Organization says. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the…