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Dr. Deborah Money, senior author of the paper published Monday in JAMA, said having such a large study "robustly" confirms the benefit of COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women.

Many celebrities' homes were directly in the path of the multiple fires ravaging Los Angeles.

B.C. health authorities have announced the first case of a human avian flu infection acquired in Canada, with the teenage patient in critical condition in hospital.

"Here Comes the Boom," with Kevin James as a tubby high school science teacher who becomes a mixed martial-arts sensation, is every bit as ridiculous as it looks.

More than 79 per cent of eligible Canadians over the age of 12 are now at least partly vaccinated against COVID-19, and 54 per cent are fully vaccinated.

On July 1, the province removed nearly all COVID-19 public health measures, though it kept mandatory masks in certain facilities and modes of transportation.

“I didn’t see any reason to hold us back given that so many Ontarians have come forward. Over 200,000 (people a day) are coming forward to get immunized,” Dr. Kieran Moore said.

More than 80 per cent of Waterloo Region eligible residents have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

According to Sunday's report, 40 cases were recorded in Toronto, 33 in Peel Region, 23 in York Region, 16 in Middlesex-London, 14 in Hamilton, 13 in Durham, and 12 in Waterloo.

Ontario administered 176,834 vaccines in the last day as 57.2 per cent of the adult (18+) population are fully vaccinated. First dose adult coverage stands at 79.4 per cent.

Waterloo Region has announced it will join the rest of the province in entering Step 3 of Ontario’s Roadmap to Reopen on Friday at 12:01 a.m.

Manitoba's COVID-19 death toll now sits at 1,163.

Ottawa has already received more than 66 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, enough to fully immunize all eligible Canadians. But demand is starting to dip.

The COVID-19 Delta variant is more efficient in transmitting from person to person when compared to other variants, and "no vaccine is 100 percent effective," Fauci said.

There was no celebration at the White House, nor a setting of a new target for COVID-19 vaccinations, as the administration instead struggles to overcome public resistance.

Alberta Health Services has changed COVID-19 protocols for dispatchers and paramedics. As Jackie Wilson reports, one paramedic says the changes put them at risk.

China has not eliminated but largely curbed COVID-19 at home with quick lockdowns and mass testing to isolate infected people whenever new cases pop up.

The province released two sets of data on Tuesday due to the August Civic holiday.

Last Wednesday, the chief medical officer of health announced Alberta will soon have no mandatory COVID-19 measures like isolating, contact tracing or masking.

The Delta variant is now also the main circulating variant of the virus in many parts of Canada and experts say a jump in infections in kids is likely this fall.