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The St. Michael's Hospital study found homeless people in Toronto who had COVID-19 were more than twice as likely to be reinfected as people who had housing.

Clusters of children falling ill have also appeared in other parts of the world, including the U.K. and the U.S.

Many testing sites, like the one at the Community Health Train Station in Lethbridge, are drive-up, with a health worker conducting a throat swab at your vehicle.

A 67-page draft of Major League Baseball's proposed 2020 Operations Manual was sent to teams Friday and obtained by The Associated Press.

Watch the full broadcast of The West Block from Sunday, May 17, 2020 with Mercedes Stephenson.

The vaccine trials were being conducted out of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University.

Marc Seguin was surprised to learn from a nurse at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health that COVID-19 tests are only 70 per cent accurate.

Alberta's chief medical officer of health says additional measures could be put in place if cases continue to climb as 578 cases of COVID-19 were reported over the weekend. 

Three-quarters of eligible Albertans have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and some are wondering whether to take an antibody test to verify they have protection.

The spread of an odd new flu virus that has been jumping from pigs to people in parts of the United States has the World Health Organization gearing up its response planning, a senior official of the agency says.

Six patients and two staff at the Misericordia Community Hospital in Edmonton have tested positive for COVID-19, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said Tuesday.

Alberta is launching four serology studies across the province to test certain groups for COVID-19 antibodies.

More than 81 per cent of B.C.'s cases have recovered, while 155 people have died of COVID-19.

While a tick bite itself may cause irritation, the bigger concern is illnesses, including Lyme disease, which is caused by a bacteria ticks carry.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on Tuesday confirmed 55 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. and two additional deaths.

The outbreak at the bonspiel took place in the early days of the pandemic and was one of the first large-scale outbreaks in the province.

The hope is the drones can help connect people in remote communities to laboratories more quickly.

The WHO is raising the level of alert about the Zika virus, B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCDC) says testing for pregnant women is readily available, but the reliability of the procedure should be taken into consideration.

The earliest known outbreak of the MERS coronavirus infected at least 10 people, with testing still underway on blood samples from seven people who were likely exposed during the April 2012 incident, officials in Jordan and in the United States have revealed.

This week experts from around the world will begin meeting to advise the World Health Organization on the new MERS coronavirus.