The Region of Waterloo has unveiled how much the local vaccination efforts will cost this year and where they expect to be with the rollout down the road.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is holding a virtual news conference Thursday as he isolates in Toronto following exposure to a staffer who tested positive for COVID-19.
Hospitals in the province are required to halt all non-emergent and non-urgent surgeries immediately as people with COVID-19 continue to fill up hospitals and put the healthcare system under strain amid the third wave.
New data shows that COVID-19 testing totals in Waterloo Region is lower than the provincial average, but the area’s top doctor says it’s not unexpected.
Although COVID-19 cases are climbing to astronomical new heights, the death rate in Canada is not rising at the same rate, something experts explain is due to a combination of younger patients, public health measures and the lessons doctors have learned from a year of battling the virus.
Staff at the University of Guelph are hoping to still celebrate with their graduates this year by taking convocation on the road after the current stay-at-home order expires.
As India grapples with soaring COVID-19 infection rates, the Canadian government is considering additional measures to prevent further spread of the virus from international travel.
India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world's second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen.
The world's fastest pace of spreading infections and the highest daily increase in coronavirus cases are pushing India further into a deepening and deadly health care crisis.
Health officials in Nova Scotia are reporting 38 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday – the highest single-day case increase the province has seen in just under one year.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising Canada will slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 per cent within the next decade. The cut applies to 2005 emission levels.
U.S. President Joe Biden will open a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the U.S. pumps out, a commitment he hopes will spur China and other big polluters to speed up efforts of their own.
Hospitals in the province are required to halt all non-emergent and non-urgent surgeries immediately as people with COVID-19 continue to fill up hospitals and put the healthcare system under strain amid the third wave.
Fake doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine were being sold in Mexico and Poland for as much as US$2,500 a shot, the drugmaker and an official confirmed.
