COVID-19

Humans first caught the virus that causes COVID-19 from animals and research now suggests it could also be the other way around.

COVID-19 cases surged across Canada as several provinces smashed daily infection records and the nationwide tally crested 4,000 on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

New federal support for Canada's pandemic-battered airline industry will be contingent on carriers providing refunds to passengers whose flights were cancelled, the government announced on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

As demand for flu shots appears to be up across the country, the Public Health Agency of Canada is working with suppliers to order more doses — a feat that could prove more difficult than it sounds.

The province’s spending plan for the next three years has a focus on getting young people into the trades as Progressive Conservatives unveil their plan to “protect, support, recover” from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Severe cases of COVID-19 may soon rise as hospitalizations and deaths catch up to the recent spread of the illness, Canada's chief public health officer warned on Wednesday, November 3, 2020, as Quebec and Ontario reported almost 50 deaths between them.

The Ontario government is expected to lay out the next phase of its COVID-19 response as it presents its first budget since the start of the pandemic on Thursday, November 5, 2020.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has some tough choices to make as he decides which businesses can reopen while the province reports a single-day record in new coronavirus cases.

The country’s top doctor unveiled new recommendations Tuesday for non-medical masks, saying they should be made of at least three layers and stressing their importance as the country heads indoors for winter amid a surging COVID-19 case count.

Manitoba weighed imposing a curfew to help contain the spread of COVID-19 while Ontario considered whether to loosen restrictions in some hot spots on Monday, November 2, 2020, as both provinces continued to see hundreds of new infections.

George Washington's "last great experiment" faces an existential litmus test beginning on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as the bristling polarities of an energized, outraged and well-armed body politic finish weighing in on who should be the next American president.

Canadian immunologists say they’re finding telltale markers in patients' blood that help predict the severity of COVID-19 and could lead to more targeted treatments.

Politicians, advocates and public health officials were ringing the alarm Thursday over COVID-19’s impact on long-term care homes as Ontarians awaited fresh projections of how the virus is expected to spread.

Rest assured, the scientific community will not remain silent if there’s any doubt.

The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate on hold on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, as it said the country's economy won't fully recover what was lost to COVID-19 until 2022, with the road to there dependent on the path of the pandemic.