Covid Testing Canada

• Ottawa stops sending rapid COVID-19 tests to provinces as millions set to expire

  Health Canada said about 80,000 rapid tests in the federal inventory are set to expire within six months and 6.5 million within the year.

  Health

  Mar 2, 2023
  
• New COVID variant could emerge amid drop in surveillance, vaccination, WHO warns

  A growing decline in COVID-19 surveillance and vaccination could open the door to a new variant of concern, the World Health Organization says.

  Health

  Dec 2, 2022
  
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• COVID-19 remains a global health emergency, WHO says

  Despite a decline in cases and deaths from COVID-19 worldwide, the World Health Organization says the virus remains a public health emergency of international concern.

  Health

  Oct 19, 2022
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• Global COVID-19 cases have doubled in last six weeks, WHO says

  Reported cases of COVID-19 have doubled around the world in the last six weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

  Health

  Jul 20, 2022
• Ottawa dropping random COVID-19 testing at Canadian airports for vaccinated travellers

  Ottawa will temporarily end random COVID-19 testing of incoming international passengers at Canadian airports, the government announced Friday.

  Health

  Jun 10, 2022
• Canada will miss COVID-19 cases as testing systems become overwhelmed: experts

  Demand for PCR COVID-19 tests is overwhelming testing systems in some parts of Canada, and experts warn that we might soon be missing cases as a result.

  Health

  Dec 21, 2021
• Canada slaps 2 with thousands in fines for faked COVID-19 pre-flight tests

  Those who chose to travel abroad must get a COVID-19 molecular test within 72 hours prior to boarding and present the negative results before getting on flights back to Canada.

  Canada

  May 6, 2021
• Canada’s coronavirus cases exceed 300,000

   It comes just shy of a month after Canada hit 200,000 cases nationally. 

  Canada

  Nov 16, 2020