OTTAWA—Canada’s chief public health officer says new COVID-19 cases are starting to tick back up after a month of decline. The “moderate increase” at the national level noted by Dr. Theresa Tam is in keeping with models forecasting a spike in cases over the next two months unless public-health measures remain in place to combat…
Canada Aims to Double Genomic Surveillance for Variants of Concern
VANCOUVER—A national agency leading a network of labs hunting for variants of COVID-19 is aiming to double its efforts across Canada as part of a global surveillance initiative to keep up with new strains that may become more prevalent. Viruses naturally mutate over time, and several COVID -19 variants of concern have been identified, including…
Apology Sought After Woman Kicked out of N.B. Hospital for Holding Husband’s Hand
FREDERICTON—A Riverview, N.B., woman wants an apology after her mother was kicked out of a hospital by security for holding her father’s hand. Kim Crevatin says her father, Kendyl Terris, has Alzheimer’s and is living at the Moncton Hospital waiting for a nursing home bed. Her father was placed in a nursing home in November…
Top Doctors Warn of COVID 19 Variant Spread, Trudeau Says More Vaccines on the Way
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Trudeau says he’s been assured that COVID-19 vaccination deliveries will accelerate in coming weeks, and that includes four million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by the end of March. He says the pharmaceutical giant has confirmed it will deliver the doses they promised last November, and that Canada has also ordered four million…
Ottawa Lays out Criteria for Quarantine Hotels as It Inches Toward New Travel Rules
OTTAWA—The Public Health Agency of Canada has listed its criteria for hotels seeking to participate in the mandatory three-day quarantine for returning travellers. The conditions posted online put the government one step closer to fulfilling its late-January pledge that all passengers returning from non-essential trips abroad will have to self-isolate in a federally mandated facility…
Holiday Season Vacations Coincide With Rise in COVID-19 Travel Related Cases
OTTAWA—As the federal government prepares to slap new restrictions on international travel, Health Canada data suggest a worrying uptick of infections directly connected to foreign arrivals. While travel exposures account for less than two per cent of all Canada’s COVID-19 cases, the number of cases in recent travellers, and people they came into close contact…
Ontario, Quebec Maintain Downward Trend in Daily COVID-19 Cases
TORONTO—New COVID-19 infections maintained a downward trend in Canada’s two most populous provinces on Wednesday, although authorities reported more than 100 new deaths from the disease. Ontario reported another 49 deaths even as its daily case count continued an ongoing downward trend, with 1,670 new cases recorded. Quebec, which saw 53 more COVID-19-related deaths, reported…
Crime Down in First Eight Months of Pandemic, but Mental Health Calls Rise: StatCan
January 27, 2021
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OTTAWA—Newly released figures point to a major drop in police-recorded crime during the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Statistics Canada says police services across Canada reported that select criminal incidents fell by 18 percent between March and October 2020, compared with the same period a year earlier. In contrast, the total…
Freeland Hints at Potential Hotel Quarantines for Returning Travellers
January 26, 2021
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OTTAWA—Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government is “looking seriously” at tougher travel measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including mandatory hotel quarantines for air travellers returning from non-essential trips abroad. “I would like to stress that we are taking this measure very, very seriously. We are considering the issue very, very seriously,”…
Canadian Provinces Push Back Vaccination Plans as Pfizer Deliveries Grind to a Halt
Some Canadian health-care workers are being told they’ll have to wait longer to receive their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines as deliveries from a major manufacturer grind to a temporary halt. Canada is not expected to receive any Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines this week as the company revamps its operations, and deliveries are expected to be slow…
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