Category Archives: Science
Manitoba delays return to classrooms by another week due to high COVID-19 numbers
WINNIPEG — Manitoba students will be out of class for an additional week while schools prepare more measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the provincial government announced Tuesday. The province had already pushed back the post-holiday return to Ja...
Violence flares at pandemic protests in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany have reported sporadic violence at demonstrations against the country’s pandemic restrictions, with one protester in the eastern town of Lichtenstein biting an officer and another attempting to steal a service weapon. ...
Live updates: National Guard members in Texas refuse vaccine
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials indicated Tuesday that thousands of National Guard members are refusing COVID-19 vaccines in the latest challenge against a Biden administration order that requires all members of the military to get one.
Quebec limits access to PCR tests, shortens COVID-19 isolation period
MONTREAL — The Quebec Health Department said Tuesday that members of the general public with COVID-19 symptoms will not be eligible for PCR testing and should consider themselves positive if they do not have access to self-tests. The province will rese...
‘It’s really disappointing’: Parents, teachers brace for virtual learning in Ontario
TORONTO — Students, parents and teachers in Ontario are bracing for another stint of virtual education after the province announced Monday that schools would not reopen to in-person classes for at least two weeks due to the recent surge in
US close to ending buried nuke waste cleanup at Idaho site
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A lengthy project to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at a nuclear facility that sits atop a giant aquifer in eastern Idaho is nearly finished, U.S. officials
Daycare union criticizes Quebec shortened isolation time for asymptomatic staff, kids
MONTREAL — One of the largest Quebec daycare unions is condemning the province's latest measure shortening the recommended isolation periods for asymptomatic staff and kids who have contact with positive cases of COVID-19. The Fédération des intervena...
Omicron upends return to US schools and workplaces
Some school systems around the U.S. extended their holiday break Monday or switched back to online instruction because of the explosion in COVID-19 cases, while others pressed ahead with in-person classes amid a seemingly growing sense that Americans w...
Prince Edward Island reports 161 new cases of COVID-19, 995 active infections
CHARLOTTETOWN — Health officials in Prince Edward Island are reporting 161 new cases of COVID-19 as the Omicron variant rips through the province. Less than two weeks ago on Christmas Eve, the province reported 40 cases and flagged the figure as
N.L. chief medical officer says ‘most people’ will get COVID-19, reports 519 cases
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador officials are imposing stricter provincewide public health measures as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 strains health-care capacity and drives skyrocketing case counts. During a press briefing Monday, the pr...
