New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday she would end the state’s mask mandate for most indoor public places except schools, health care and correctional facilities. Her state would stop requiring people to wear a mask or prove they…
New modelling from Imperial College London, using data from England, shows the Omicron COVID-19 variant largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses. It estimates the risk of re-infection from Omicron is more than five times greater than…
Distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is still on hold in Canada, but the National Advisory Council on Immunization (NACI) is now recommending it for Canadians 30 and up. Yet the committee is also saying others might want…
Ontario reported 1,824 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, a jump in cases due to a data error for one local public health unit, bringing the provincial total to 121,746. Thursday’s case count is an increase from Wednesday which saw…
On this episode of Global National: Canada is expecting to receive four million doses of two potential COVID-19 vaccines in the early months of 2021. Mike Drolet looks at who will be the first in line for vaccinations and why…
COVID-19 patients have reported having strokes, delirium and a loss of senses, but how does the novel coronavirus affect people’s brains in these ways? Researchers say it’s an “ingenious” virus. They’re learning more every day about how COVID-19, once thought…
