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45 new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa; number of active cases drops

Hamilton is another as that district saw its numbers rise from 15 to 41 new cases . York Region is one area Yaffe said is now being monitored after it saw it...

Will a flu shot protect you from coronavirus?

Aaron Adams, D.O., family physician at King's Daughters Family Care Center said. Anyone who is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms will be turned away. Getting the...

New Cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Monday; 2 More Deaths

The latest deaths are a woman in her 100s from Winnipeg linked to the Parkview Place outbreak - a previously-announced case. Forty are in the Winnipeg health ...

France to restore state of health emergency after 3 months

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that nightly curfews will be imposed in Paris and other major cities to try to curb the spread of the Covid-1...

Dutch researchers report first death from COVID-19 reinfection

The patient was initially admitted into hospital earlier this year with a severe cough and fever, testing positive for Covid-19. Researchers compared Danish hea...

New Positive Cases of COVID-19 in County Saturday Through Tuesday

The county has averaged about 19 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the local health depart...

Coronavirus can survive 28 days on phone screens, currency, study reveals

A 25-year-old Nevada man has become the first American confirmed to have been reinfected with the novel coronavirus in the US, and the fifth case worldwide. "Al...

How long can I expect a COVID-19 illness to last?

Earlier in the pandemic, health experts said some possible cases could have been due to unreliable tests or viruses that reactivated inside patients' bodies, ...

Province announces up to 11000 job cuts at AHS

Another 4,000 housekeeping jobs, 3,000 food service jobs, 2,000 laboratory jobs, 400 laundry jobs and at least 100 management jobs are also expected to be axed ...

J&J: Mystery Illness Pauses Largest COVID Vaccine Trial

J&J's trial is on a study pause as opposed to a regulatory hold - a regulatory hold of a clinical trial is a requirement by a regulatory health authority, such ...

Facebook to ban ads discouraging vaccination on its platform

Facebook announced on Tuesday that it will be banning anti-vax ads while continuing to permit material opposing government policies that promote vaccines...

Eli Lilly pauses COVID-19 antibody trial, stock slides

Lilly didn't provide information about what caused the panel to recommend the pause. If Lilly's treatment gets the green light, the study will enroll another ...

Tillis in Washington after clearance to end virus quarantine

Tillis, a Republican seeking reelection next month, had been at his North Carolina home through Monday, when he delivered online opening comments at Barrett's h...

Covid-19 registered deaths in England and Wales highest since early July

Registered deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales have risen to their highest level since early July, new figures show. The Office for National Statis...

Coronavirus caused two-thirds of USA excess deaths

The economic loss will be four times the cost of the 2007-09 Great Recession, and it is more than twice the total spending for all the wars the USA has fought s...

Govt urged to lock down after 'losing control' of virus outbreak

The high alert level will include those now under restrictions. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said he was "deeply disappointed" that Mr Johnson had not ...

Crew member from cargo ship docked in WA tests positive for coronavirus

Eighteen of its crew members contracted the virus but have since recovered. Of the remaining 19 crew members on board the Vega Dream, six have today returned ...

Johnson & Johnson halts COVID-19 vaccine trials after unexplained illness

Johnson & Johnson was in the midst of a large final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. "They paused it at ...

Research Shows The Coronavirus Can Survive On Smartphone Screens For A Month

He ended up in the hospital and tested positive for COVID-19 on June 5. However, the researchers said her natural immune response could still have been "suffi...

Dutch woman becomes first person to die after being reinfected with coronavirus

Experts believed that since the second infection was less severe there appeared to be some "immunological memory". "The good thing about a vaccine is that it ...

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New local lockdown restrictions in England to be unveiled

Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street press conference on Monday that the Government had "agreed" with Mr Rotheram to introduce some of the restri...

Covid-19 virus may survive on smartphones, banknotes for 28 days

The patient in Washoe County, Nevada, USA, got infected with two distinct variants of the virus while testing negative in between. On May 31, he went to an ...

B.C. health officer to announce latest COVID-19 cases

There are 20 people hospitalized in Clark County with COVID-19 and nine people hospitalized awaiting test results, according to Public Health. Henry noted tha...

Eli Lilly pauses COVID antibody trial, citing safety concern

The company didn't provide any information about what caused the data panel to recommend the pause. Shares of Eli Lilly declined as much as 3.3% in afternoon ...

Biden Says He's 'Not A Fan' Of Expanding The Supreme Court

At the time, McConnell said Scalia's death, which happened February 2016, was too close to an election and that voters should decide who fills the seat, leavi...

One new imported Covid-19 case recorded in NZ today

Clark County must remain at the moderate transmission level, between 25 and 75 cases per 100,000 residents over 14 days, for three weeks before Clark County Pub...

Dutch woman dies after coronavirus reinfection, case report says

The patient tested negative for the virus after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 in April 2020, the researchers said. The study noted that the patient's se...

WHO warns nations who are taking the pandemic very lightly

It is not an option, he insisted. Besides, the world does not know enough about immunity to the virus, he said, even as reports emerge from across the world o...

Mitt Romney scolds Trump, calls current politics a 'hate-filled morass'

Romney took to Twitter to share his statement , noting how troubled he is by American's current state, which was once "the birthplace of modern democracy". In ...