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An overwhelming 81 per cent of inmates, according to the Ontario government, are being held awaiting trial and presumptively innocent.

A Quebec judge authorized a class action suit Monday, allowing long-term care residents and their families to seek damages from the province over its initial response to COVID-19.

Disease X, a hypothetical illness with the potential for 20 times more fatalities than the COVID-19 pandemic, will be the focal point of a panel discussion in Davos on Wednesday.

The WHO says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

Many of those patients are admitted for other reasons and contract the novel coronavirus during their hospital stay, according to Health Minister Christian Dubé.

If the case is allowed to go ahead, it would cover all residents of long-term care homes where COVID-19 outbreaks occurred during the first two waves of the pandemic.

Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman made mRNA molecule discoveries together that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines.

A Montreal lawyer says that Quebec's COVID-19 response in long-term care homes was marked by improvisation and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late.

The video was planned as a "virtual reflection/memorial event'' for early 2021, the provincial Finance Department said in response to a freedom of information request.

Danielle Smith wants to see “a willingness to reform the management and structure of Alberta Health Services to better decentralize decision-making and resources.”

Raccoon dogs are small, fluffy, rotund creatures — and now some are postulating that they may be involved in the COVID-19 pandemic spread.

Public Services and Procurement Canada said the total cost of more than 27,000 ventilators Canada stockpiled was over $807 million.

COVID hospitalizations in Alberta have been coming down through early 2023, to levels not seen since late July 2022.

Lunar New Year is the most important holiday of the year in China, when huge numbers of people working in prosperous coastal cities head to their hometowns for family reunions.

The measures follow similar implemented rules from other countries across the world, including the U.S. and Japan, as China grapples with a surge of the virus.

Beginning Jan. 5, all travelers to the U.S. from China will be required to get tested no more than two days before travel and provide a negative test before boarding their flight.

Seven Manitoba churches say COVID-19 public health orders violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Quebec's public health director said the coming weeks will be challenging due to respiratory viruses that are hitting the province's hospitals hard — COVID-19, influenza and RSV.

Ottawa Public Health says there were 22 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours as city facilities start to feel the impact of the looming fourth wave of the virus.

The top doctor says the border measures help support a safe return to school for children by keeping COVID-19 numbers low in the province.