Category Archives: Health
New Brunswick hits 60 per cent with one shot of vaccine, reports 10 new virus cases
FREDERICTON — Health officials in New Brunswick say just over 60 per cent of residents aged 12 and older have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Officials say more than 46,000 people have been at least partially immunized in
Nova Scotia reports four COVID-19 deaths, highest single-day total in last year
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is reporting its highest single-day death toll from COVID-19 in just over a year with four new deaths related to the virus. Health officials say the deaths include two men in their 80s and a woman in
Quebec police kept busy on first night without COVID-19 curfew in Quebec
MONTREAL — Quebecers lost no time in marking the end of the provincewide curfew imposed to help lower COVID-19 cases, gathering in large groups across the province and creating a busy night for local police forces. Authorities in multiple jurisdictions...
Dancing like there’s no COVID-19: Paris hosts test concert
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people, masked and tested for the coronavirus, packed inside a Paris arena for a concert Saturday as part of a public health experiment to prepare France to host big events again.
Vietnam finds new virus variant, hybrid of India, UK strains
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday.
Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them or at least
Health Canada extends expiry for some Ontario AstraZeneca doses by one month
TORONTO — Ontario received permission from Health Canada to extend the expiry of some doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Saturday, saving thousands of shots from potentially going to waste. A spokeswoman for Health Minister Christine Elliott sa...
In time for summer, Europe sees dramatic fall in virus cases
ROME (AP) — When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of
Chinese city locks down neighborhood after virus upsurge
BEIJING (AP) — The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou shut down a neighborhood and ordered its residents to stay home Saturday for door-to-door coronavirus testing following an upsurge in infections that has rattled authorities.
The Latest: Two-thirds of NY adults have at least one shot
ALBANY, N.Y. — The latest federal data shows that two-thirds of adults in New York state have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.