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Five years ago, on Jan. 28th, 2020, we first heard the announcement that changed everything, arguably some things, forever. The first case of ‘novel coronavirus’ had been discovered in B.C. Angela Jung looks back and ahead at COVID-19 in the province.

The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed on Wednesday 26 experts to form its new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of novel pathogens, including several who served on its mission to Wuhan, China, to probe the source of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The statement named the 26 proposed members ahead of a two-week period of public...

The fourth wave of COVID-19 is impacting many parts of Canada and medical professionals are warning that if action isn’t taken soon, the country could deal with a worse situation than it has seen in the previous three waves of the novel coronavirus. Jamie Mauracher reports.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that the staff onboard the USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy hospital ship bound for New York City, would treat patients who are not infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, but who are in urgent need of care. Trump said this would free up hospital resources...

One more person has died of the novel coronavirus in British Columbia, health officials said Saturday while announcing 92 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the largest jump in cases in a single day. The province has now confirmed a total of 884 cases of the novel coronavirus disease, of which 45% have recovered.

Pope Francis on Sunday backed United Nations secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for a global ceasefire during the novel coronavirus pandemic, so that the world can focus on fighting the virus. Pope Francis made the appeal during his weekly blessing, delivered from the papal library.

U.K. Housing Minister Robert Jenrick spoke to reporters on Sunday about the country’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, stating that the U.K. is on “emergency footing” for the first time “since the Second World War.”

City of Toronto general manager of emergency management Matthew Pegg said on Friday that people who ignore or defy Ontario law by opening non-essential businesses, or use public spaces that are closed due to the novel coronavirus, will face fines.

The stars of the 2011 film “Contagion”, a fictional film about a deadly virus that leads to a pandemic across the world, reunited this week and filmed public service announcements about COVID-19. Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle, each recorded messages urging people to listen to experts, wash their hands with soap...

Spanish police paid tribute Friday to Jesús Gayoso, a senior counter-terrorism officer who reportedly died after contracting COVID-19. Gayoso is the fourth active civil guard in Spain to be killed by the novel coronavirus.

Speaking from outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the federal government has now formalized its updated rules for domestic travel across Canada. Anyone showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus will now be banned from boarding domestic flights and intercity passenger trains, the prime minister announced at a press conference Saturday.

The novel coronavirus outbreak at the heart of the U.K. government spread on Monday, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, self-isolating with symptoms just days after the British leader himself tested positive.

Several Guelph police officers showed their support for healthcare workers with a round of applause and a blast of the sirens from their cruisers outside of Guelph General Hospital.

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil and chief public health officer Dr. Robert Strang announced Wednesday that are 26 new cases of the novel coronavius in Nova Scotia, bringing the provincial total to 173.

New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Jennifer Russell, announced on Wednesday that the first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus has been identified in the province. Russell said the patient was “minimally symptomatic” and has been in self-isolation.

As cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spread in Canada, many employees and business owners are bracing for potential workforce impacts. But as Alexa MacLean reports, the federal government says it’s offering support to alleviate those.

Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen tells media about the province’s first presumptive case of novel coronavirus.

The National Hockey League has suspended its 2019-20 season until further notice in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the league announced on Thursday.

Between new mortgage stress-test rules, banking rate-cuts and the novel coronavirus, big changes could be in store for the real-estate market in Montreal. Re/Max agent Nicolas Markou joins Global’s Dan Spector.

Several people recently died at a seniors home near Seattle, Wash., after contracting the novel coronavirus. This has many Canadian long-term facilities doubling their efforts to prepare for the outbreak.