Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - As Canadians said farewell to the COVID-19-stricken Coral Princess cruise ship on Monday for their long journey home, other recently repatriated high-seas travellers coped with...

OTTAWA - Wearing a simple cloth mask is a way for someone who might have COVID-19 without realizing it to avoid spreading the illness to others, Canada's top public health doctor said Monday. Dr....

WASHINGTON - One of America's largest manufacturers of medical face masks rode to Canada's rescue Monday, forging an agreement with the White House that allows it to provide millions of its precious N...

OTTAWA - The federal government will soon change rules to let hundreds of thousands hard-hit workers access pandemic-related emergency relief, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Monday as fed...

OTTAWA - Days before Canada announced more than $100 million in new foreign aid to fight COVID-19, a federal minister and a leading aid advocate said the country can't afford to scrimp on its overseas...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8:30 p.m. 3M says it will continue to send N95 respirators to Canada after reaching an agreement with the White House to ...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7 p.m. ET on April 6, 2020: There are 16,666 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 8,580 confirm...

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...

OTTAWA - Some provinces and health officials saw glimmers of hope in the country's COVID-19 numbers on Monday, even as the prime minister warned that Canadians shouldn't expect lif...

MONTREAL - When a Quebec couple recently travelled to the far reaches of Yukon in a bid to escape the novel coronavirus, only to be turned away, it seemed a textbook case of pandemic-generated pa...