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P.E.I. health officials announce new border measures to address Omicron variant

Anyone arriving in P.E.I. from an international destination, including the United States, must be tested at their point of entry and again on the fourth day after they arrive

Dec 2, 2021 5:21 PM Read more >

Confusion at Canadian airports as few details on COVID-19 testing rule for travellers

Confusion has been growing at Canadian airports since the federal government moved to change COVID-19 testing rules for travellers.

Dec 2, 2021 4:42 PM Read more >

Ottawa, provinces mull expansion of COVID-19 tests for arriving American travellers

Ottawa announced on Tuesday that all air travellers entering Canada, except for those coming from the U.S., would need to be tested for COVID-19 upon arrival

Dec 1, 2021 1:50 PM Read more >

South African envoy calls on Canada to support waiver on COVID-19 vaccines

South African High Commissioner Sibongiseni Dlamini-Mntambo says the emergence of Omicron is rooted in the vaccine inequity

Nov 30, 2021 2:02 PM Read more >

More than $1B needed to clear surgical backlogs: Canadian Medical Association

Deloitte found a backlog of 327,800 procedures across Canada

Nov 30, 2021 12:34 PM Read more >

Unvaccinated travellers barred from planes and trains as of today

The policy came into effect on Oct. 30, but the federal government allowed a short transition period

Nov 30, 2021 9:51 AM Read more >

Quebec confirms case of Omicron variant of concern; 115 travellers under watch

115 people who recently travelled to the province, principally from countries in southern Africa, have been asked to take a PCR test and to isolate

Nov 29, 2021 4:19 PM Read more >

Health officials in New Brunswick report 46 new COVID-19 cases and one death Monday

A person in their 70s in the Moncton region has died as a result of COVID-19

Nov 29, 2021 4:18 PM Read more >

What we know so far about the Omicron variant, which has been found in Canada

Canada's first two cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant of concern were confirmed Sunday in Ottawa

Nov 29, 2021 3:56 PM Read more >

Newfoundland and Labrador reports nine new COVID-19 cases

Four of the cases reported today involve people younger than 20

Nov 29, 2021 3:39 PM Read more >