Canada Omicron Cases

Some sobering figures from Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force reveal how quickly the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and its subvariants spread across the country at the end of 2021 and the first few months of this year. The task force…

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra suggests there are no plans to remove the mandate requiring face masks on planes and trains, noting they’re a “minor inconvenience” to protect vulnerable Canadians. In an interview with The West…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 20, 2022 5:07 pm …

Members from three federal opposition parties want an emergency meeting by the end of this week to press the government on the need for “surge” healthcare resources and its plan to respond to increasing Omicron cases. In a…

Canadian public health officials were eyeing the “high pandemic potential” of infected travellers arriving in Canada from dozens of countries seeing outbreaks of COVID-19 in the weeks just prior to the World Health Organization…