Tag Archives: health

SAO PAULO - Four days after firing his health minister amid the coronavirus pandemic, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday he wants social isolation policies to end nationwide this week desp...

WASHINGTON - Late-stage negotiations in Washington on a new $450 billion coronavirus aid package dragged past Monday's hoped-for deadline, but the Trump administration and key lawmakers insisted a fin...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa will avoid destroying valuable medical equipment from the national stockpile from now on by making sure it gets used before it expires. Trudeau said ...

CALGARY - A meat-packing plant in southern Alberta where a worker died because of COVID-19 is temporarily shutting down as the result of an outbreak at the facility. Cargill's High River plant, w...

WASHINGTON - The partisan cracks in America's collective effort to combat COVID-19 are growing wider by the day - growing, some say, not due to grassroots sentiment but by political forces both w...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:15 p.m. B.C. is reporting 52 new cases of COVID-19 since Saturday, including five more deaths. This brings the death to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Canada's chief public health officer and her provincial counterparts are encouraging people to wash their hands, give ea...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 9:36 p.m. ET on April 20, 2020: There are 36,831 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 19,319 confirmed (i...

Canada's public health measures have helped bring the national COVID-19 outbreak further under control, medical officials said Monday even as they cautioned a return to pre-pandemi...

TORONTO - The association representing Ontario doctors says a proposal from the provincial government to offer advance payments will not be enough to keep clinics open during the COVID-19 pandemi...