Category Archives: Health
Germany anticipates big omicron rise over holiday period
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's health minister said Friday that the proportion of coronavirus infections with the new omicron variant will increase sharply in the days ahead, and he appealed to people to take steps to avoid infection during Christmas festivit...
Protesters storm Guadeloupe legislature over vaccine rules
PARIS (AP) — Protesters angry over virus and vaccine rules occupied Guadeloupe's regional legislature because of stalled negotiations over their grievances about management of the French Caribbean island.
‘The right thing to do’: Canadians differ on holiday plans in light of Omicron threat
It's beginning to look a lot like ... last year. Festive feasts, gift exchanges and winter fun with loved ones are being cancelled or limited as COVID-19 rips through Canada for the second holiday season in a row, the highly-transmissible Omicron
New health restrictions to tackle COVID-19 Omicron surge to take effect in Alberta
EDMONTON — New public health restrictions in Alberta announced earlier this week to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant take effect today. Venues that seat more than 1,000 people will be limited to half capacity, a restriction that
Boosters shots and COVID test kits topping Canadian’s wish lists
On the eve of the Christmas holiday, COVID-19 booster shots and rapid test kits are topping the wish lists of many Canadians as case numbers rocket to record highs across much of the nation. Fuelled by the explosive growth of the
Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers
BOSTON (AP) — Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London’s hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city’s firefighters called out sick. In New York, about
COVID-19 spike worsens Africa’s severe poverty, hunger woes
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Outside a foreign currency exchange in Zimbabwe’s capital, hordes of people desperate for U.S. dollars are pushed up against each other. “That’s it,
$2.5B headed to tribes for long-standing water settlements
WASHINGTON (AP) — For over a decade, residents of the rural Fort Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona have been promised miles of pipeline that would bring clean drinking water to their communities.
Alberta makes testing changes as Omicron COVID-19 variant continues to soar
EDMONTON — Alberta is adjusting its COVID-19 testing rules to cope with the ongoing rise in cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province's chief medical officer of health, is urging Albertans with COVID-19 s...
B.C. reports 2,046 new COVID-19 infections with high demand for tests
VICTORIA — British Columbia reported 2,046 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, eclipsing the previous record set the day before as the Omicron variant spreads. The province says 975 cases of the highly transmissible variant have been confirmed so far,...
