Montreal’s acute-care health network is being hit harder by COVID-19 now than during the first wave of the pandemic, says the chief of the intensive-care unit at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
The main difference between the first and second waves is hospitals today have far fewer nurses and respiratory therapists available to...
The new coronavirus strain that emerged in South Africa is even more problematic than a mutated form that prompted new lockdowns across much of Britain, health authorities said on Monday.
“I’m incredibly worried about the South African variant,” UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on BBC radio on Monday, citing...
With COVID-19 cases still rising and hospitals nearing capacity, intensive-care doctors in Quebec and Ontario are bracing for the worst, as they start to see the impact of people flouting pandemic rules during the holidays.
Michael Warner, medical director of critical care at Toronto’s Michael Garron Hospital, said he expects...
More than 5,800 new COVID-19 infections and nearly 100 deaths related to the disease were logged in Ontario over the past two days as the province smashed their previous record for most cases reported in a single day.
Data released Saturday shows that 3,363 cases of the novel coronavirus were...
Manitoba's health minister says navigating the pandemic in 2020 has been unlike anything he has experienced in political life ... or life in general.
In a year-end interview, Cameron Friesen says governments around the world have spent most of this year scrambling to try and understand what they were up...
The World Health Organization has granted emergency validation to BioNTech-Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, the WHO announced in a statement on Thursday.
The decision should allow countries to quickly approve the import and distribution of the vaccine.
The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine is the first to receive such approval from the global body.
"This is...
As Canadians wait for their turn at the COVID-19 vaccine, individual provinces are developing their own priority lists for the precious few doses that are being distributed.
Here in New Brunswick, residents of long-term care facilities over the age of 85 are the top priority for the latest batch...
During a public health emergency, repurposing existing medicines is considered to be a fast route to potential cures, so several companies and academic groups have spent much of the last year looking for COVID-19 remedies in already marketed drugs. Now, a research team from China has identified an approved...
Health officials have begun to administer the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to long-term care residents in Ontario on Thursday.
The vaccine was delivered around 9:30 a.m. to Chester Village, a long-term care home in Toronto’s Danforth neighbourhood that has yet to experience a serious outbreak of COVID-19...
Lockdowns have been initiated in the United Kingdom, as Canada as well as several European Union countries cancel flights after information was revealed about a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers are rigorously examining how the mutations arose, what it means for vaccines, and updating their...
