Category Archives: COVID-19 Coronavirus
Atlantic Canada's vaunted COVID-Zero strategy no match for Omicron variant
HALIFAX - Through most of the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlantic Canada won international praise for the region's largely successful efforts to keep infection rates low - but the arrival of Omicron has upend...
Jan 06, 2022
Montreal Canadiens extend COVID-19 pause through Saturday
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens are extending their pause on team activities as the club continues to deal with a COVID-19 outbreak. The Canadiens announced Thursday that both the NHL team and its A...
Jan 06, 2022
Nunavut changes COVID-19 testing to free up health-care resources
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut will no longer offer lab-confirmed testing for communities with COVID-19 to free up health-care resources. Chief public health officer Dr. Michael Patterson says that means ...
Jan 06, 2022
Canada Soccer cancels January camp, training match over COVID-19 concerns
Citing the pandemic and impact of the Omicron variant, Canada Soccer has cancelled its planned January men's camp and a training match in Florida. The 40th-ranked Canadian men had been scheduled to pl...
Jan 06, 2022
More than one million booster shots administered in Alberta
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta has surpassed the one million COVID-19 booster shot mark.As of January 3, more than a million Albertans had received their third vaccine dose, helping to protect them against ...
Jan 06, 2022
COVID-19 spectre hangs over Canada's Olympic figure skating trials in Ottawa
After three flights over a stressful 33 hours with numerous delays, Keegan Messing finally in arrived in Ottawa for Canada's figure skating Olympic trials on Wednesday. He was nearly a day late. His s...
Jan 06, 2022
Staffing challenges from surging COVID cases affecting some police, transit service
Surging cases of COVID-19 driven by the rapidly transmissible Omicron variant are pushing the health-care system to the brink and putting pressure on some police and transit services. With 170 personn...
Jan 06, 2022
COVID staffing shortages, Omicron could boost waning immunity: In The News for Jan. 6
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 6 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Jan 06, 2022
Omicron could boost waning immunity, shown in blood: Gov't COVID-19 advisers.
OTTAWA - Immunity against COVID-19 among vaccinated adult Canadians and those who have already contracted the virus has been waning throughout the population, tests on donated blood have found. Tests ...
Jan 06, 2022
Vancouver Canucks centre Elias Pettersson enters NHL's COVID-19 protocol
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks say Elias Pettersson has been placed into the NHL's COVID-19 protocol. The Canucks (16-15-3) announced the news on Twitter on Wednesday, a scheduled day off for the t...
Jan 05, 2022