Tag: covid

A new study has found that those who gained immunity to the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, likely have some protection against the Omicron variant. The …

BEIJING — Hong Kong on Saturday reported 27,647 new coronavirus cases while Shanghai closed schools and parks and authorities in Beijing suspended access to a residential area and told the …

The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country’s public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the …

Businesses accessing the government’s pandemic wage and rent subsidy will see their support decline by half over the weekend, prompting calls within the tourism sector for Ottawa to step in. …

Marking two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) first described COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, experts say there is no going back to what was once …

The first reported COVID-19 death in Canada — a man in his 80s who died in a North Vancouver care home — occurred two days before it was publicly announced …

BEIJING — China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed …

Two years after the World Health Organization first described COVID-19 as a global pandemic, leaders in Canada and many other parts of the world appear ready to move on, for …

The first reported COVID-19 death in Canada — a man in his 80s who died in a North Vancouver care home — occurred two days before it was publicly announced …

Over the past two years, an unprecedented tsunami of pandemic information has guided and informed the decision making of governments, health-care workers, the global scientific community, and the public.  No …