Tag: pandemic

WASHINGTON — Eight-year-old Brooklynn Chiles fidgets on the hospital bed as she waits for the nurse at the U.S. Children’s National Hospital. The white paper beneath her crinkles as she …

Former U.S. president Barack Obama announced Sunday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. "I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise," he said …

BEIJING — China’s government responded Suxjmtzywnday to a spike in coronavirus infections by shutting down its southern business centre of Shenzhen, a city of 17.5 million people, and restricted access …

BEIJING — The number of new coronavirus cases in an outbreak in China’s northeast tripled Sunday and authorities stepped up anti-disease controls by suspending bus service to Shanghai and ordering …

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 …