“Even though you might not be Nigerian, even though you might not have people out there you care about, just think whatever you do it’s going to impact if Nigeria gets the change it is looking for."

Canada put health-care workers at risk of contracting COVID-19 and taking it home to their families because it failed to learn lessons from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, a new report says.

Dr. Josef Penninger, a UBC life sciences institute director, co-discovered an enzyme called ACE2 while working as a researcher in Toronto in the late 90s.

As of Friday, COVID-19 has killed more Canadians than SARS did in 2003.

Winnipeg is home to the only Level 4 lab in Canada and it's the battleground when it comes to the fight against infectious diseases and deadly viruses like COVID-19.

Some strategies are proving more effective than others in containing the pandemic.

Ontario stockpiled some 55 million N95 masks and other medical equipment after the SARS epidemic. Officials have confirmed that the masks in the stockpile have passed their expiration date.

Experts say that Canada has all of the necessities for widespread disease outbreak, but hospital overcrowding remains a concern.

Hubei, the center of the outbreak, has adopted a revised diagnosis and treatment plan aimed at accelerating the identification and treatment of patients.

The development is prompting worried comparisons with the deadly SARS pandemic of 17 years ago.