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…
On this week’s edition of The West Block, host Mercedes Stephenson speaks with one of the country’s top medical minds — Dr. Peter Jüni, director of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table — about how Canadians should respond to the evolving…
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…
People who contract the new coronavirus are most likely to be highly infectious for nine days after the onset of symptoms, a new study has found, reinforcing the need for self-isolation for at least 10 days. The peer-reviewed research, published…
