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Province reports five new COVID cases in Lethbridge

The province has had 10,843 cases and 9,261 recoveries to date. One person from the Central Health Zone has died as a result of the virus, which is the second...

Trump calls on COVID-19 survivors to donate blood plasma

If you are healthy and able, we suggest you contact the agency at 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) to make an appointment to donate. To those that have had the ...

Hundreds of kids infected with coronavirus within days at overnight camp — CDC

Of the 597 people who attended the camp, which was not named by the CDC, 344 were tested, and 260 tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, a...

Gilead Raises 2020 Profit Outlook on Remdesivir Demand

The company said that it expects to produce over two million courses of the drug by the end of the year, and has priced remdesivir at $50 per vial in the USA ...

Vietnam reports 1st-ever COVID-19 death after new outbreak

Since then almost 100 people who had travelled to Danang have tested positive across the country, leaving health authorities scrambling to snuff out the outbrea...

Careless youth driving some Covid spikes, says WHO

The World Health Organization on Thursday said that younger people who are "letting down their guard" amid the coronavirus pandemic to enjoy the summer holi...

Herman Cain died after being hospitalized with Covid-19

He said: "I think politicians need to be careful about using language about a second wave starting to roll across Europe". Cheryl Lloyd, education programme h...

Coronavirus cases surge to 50 ahead of long weekend

Five people are in hospital, two of whom are in intensive care. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix pleaded with British...

Fauci responds to Trump's testing tweet at House coronavirus hearing

Rep. Jim Jordan , R-Ohio, speaks during a House Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus crisis, Friday, July 31, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington . Jordan...

Alberta adds 127 COVID-19 cases, 1 death

One person from the Central Health Zone has died as a result of the virus, which is the second death for that region. Alberta's death toll from COVID-19 now sit...

Fraser Health confirms coronavirus case Dania Home in Burnaby

This new outbreak brings the total of health-care outbreaks to three, with two in long-term care facilities and one in acute care. The Fraser Health Authority...

New Saline County COVID-19 Cases

In Marshall County: Henry, six cases out of 324 tests. According to the Saline County Health Department, with the new cases the total for the county is now 34...

Staff member at Burnaby long-term care home tests positive for COVID -19

Of the total COVID-19 cases, five people are in hospital (no change from July 30), two of whom are in intensive care. Twenty-four of the new cases are in the ...

California officials report first virus death of a child

The California Department of Public Health places counties that exceed thresholds in disease transmission, hospitalization and hospital capacity for three conse...

ACS Issues Updated Guideline for Cervical Cancer Screening

Differences to the updated guidelines include the preferred screening strategy of primary HPV testing every five years and recommendation to start screening...

COVID-19: Health officials announce 50 new cases, one new death

Cases now total 3,641, with a recovery rate of 87 per cent. Dania Home is a two-storey long-term care home with 102 beds. Five of the new cases were epidemi...

Young children carry higher levels of coronavirus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says kids 2 years and older should wear a face mask over their mouths and noses to prevent viral spread, but th...

Sask. reports 18th COVID-19 death, 38 new cases

Saskatchewan has the highest seven-day average of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in Canada . It added Hutterian Safety Council (HSC) chair David Tschetter p...

Johnson & Johnson's single-shot coronavirus vaccine has begun human trials

The mRNA vaccine developed from Moderna and Pfizer needs two doses of vaccine to get the expected results, but in the J&J preclinical study, the single-shot vac...

745 new COVID-19 cases, 5 additional deaths in latest MDH report

Pennsylvania reported 970 new coronavirus cases on Friday. That includes 244 news cases from Allegheny County and 130 new cases from Philadelphia County. The po...

U.S. Drops $2.1 Billion on Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine

That is almost identical to the $40 per patient the USA agreed to pay Pfizer and BioNTech when it inked a nearly $2 billion deal for 50 million courses of that ...

Ontario reports 134 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday

The province had reported 76 cases on Wednesday and 89 cases on Thursday. Following two days of case counts being below 100, Ontario has recorded a spike in t...

Maintain tariffs on lower-standard food imports, report says

The negative impacts of growing up hungry are long-lasting and serious, says the review. The review says free school meals should be available to a further 1....

Heart damage lingers in COVID-19 patients, even after recovery

Some studies suggest it could actually be a better way to predict whether has the disease than other well-known symptoms like fever and cough. Datta explained...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison 'very concerned' by Victoria's COVID-19 cases

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews said everyone in the state of more than 6 million people would be required to wear a mask when outside from Sunday, widening a ...

Roche reports setback in testing arthritis drug for COVID-19

Actemra didn't show enough improvement when tested on hospitalized patients with severe pneumonia, Roche said Wednesday. The trial found that 19.7% of Actem...

Wisconsin governor orders masks statewide as coronavirus cases spike

Evers . They also oppose a mask mandate, but have yet to convey if they would sue if Evers enacted one. Gov. Tony Evers issued the emergency order for a m...

WHO Says COVID-19 Pandemic Is One Big Wave, Not Seasonal

Referring to a greater number of cases during the summer in the US, Harris also "urged vigilance in the application of measures and warned against mass meetings...

Toronto and Peel moving into Stage 3 Friday

One day after Toronto recorded just a single new COVID-19 case in the city, Queen's Park announced it would be joining the majority of the province in Stage...

Drinking two bottles of wine a week 'increases dementia risk'

The factors associated with the greatest proportion of dementia cases were less education in early life, hearing loss in middle age and smoking in later life (7...