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Detections of the highly-transmissible new COVID-19 variant XBB.1.5 have continued to rise in Canada, but so far it does not appear these infections are leading to more severe illness, Canada’s top doctor said Friday. Canada’s chief…

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is set to provide an update Friday as the country continues to grapple with new COVID-19 subvariants amid ongoing medicine shortages. The update will come at 10 a.m. ET with federal Health…

Although the flu continues to circulate across the country, it has “declined sharply,” according to a new report from Canada’s public health agency. After previously seeing a peak in cases, most surveillance indicators of influenza…

After a year that saw the highest number of COVID-19 deaths and a massive increase in infections, Canada’s top doctor says more investments are needed to combat misinformation about vaccines and pandemic measures to ensure Canada is…

Canada’s minister of transport says after a briefing with the country’s top doctor, the government still strongly encourages people to wear masks on planes and trains _ but stopped short of making it a requirement. Omar Alghabra says…

A surge of viral illness across Canada, especially among children, has sparked questions among some infectious diseases experts about whether COVID-19 is damaging the immune systems of its patients and making them more susceptible to…

COVID-19 vaccines for children under five in Canada have been available for more than three months, but so far only a small fraction of eligible kids have received a pandemic shot, which is prompting doctors to sound the alarm as…

As new COVID-19 sub-variants move across Canada, experts say rapid tests can still be considered an adequate tool to detect the virus – even if they are not perfect all the time. “These tiny, tiny changes in sub-variants matter a lot…

Around 1.4 million Canadian adults who know or suspect they’ve had COVID-19 say they experienced symptoms months after getting sick, according to new data released Monday by Statistics Canada. The data, released in partnership with…

Patients who develop long COVID in Canada are accessing health care more frequently in the months after infection, which means patients are competing for scarcer resources within Canada’s ailing health system, according to a new…