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OTTAWA - The federal government rolled out a $1-billion package Wednesday to help the country's health-care system and economy cope with the novel coronavirus outbreak as the number of cases in C...

VANCOUVER - Canada's first death from the novel coronavirus has highlighted the urgent and often ignored need for better staffing at long-term care facilities where elderly residents are especial...

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has posted guidelines aimed at helping event planners figure out whether to cancel mass gatherings of people as the federal government works to quell the po...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's education minister has taken the unprecedented step of ordering all preschoolers and students travelling abroad to refrain from returning to school for two weeks&nbs...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is defending its decision to take more than $4.1 million from Veterans Affairs Canada's operating budget at a time when the department is struggling with a backlog of t...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada: - Ontario: 37 confirmed - British Columbia: 39 confirmed, including 1 death - Quebec: 4 confirmed; 1 presumptive - Albert...

LOS ANGELES - "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" will tape without studio audiences in response to the ongoing virus outbreak. A person close to the shows tells The Associated Press Monday that the mo...

ROME - Italian doctors celebrated one small victory in their battle against the coronavirus after a 38-year-old man was moved out of intensive care for the first time since he tested positive Feb. 21 ...

NEW YORK - Purim is traditionally one of the most joyous Jewish holidays, but some celebrations in Israel and hard-hit parts of the United States are being scaled back or cancelled due to the coronavi...

The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern): 11:25 p.m. Health officials in northern Ontario have confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus in ...