The Omicron variant, first detected by South Africa, has become the latest and fifth variant of concern designated by the WHO since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Omicron: How does it compare with other COVID-19 variants of concern?
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10 states win court bid to block Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health workers
The court order applies to a coalition of suing states that includes Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
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Yukon chief coroner Heather Jones says opioid fatalities now represent over 20 per cent of all deaths investigated by the service between January and Nov. 26 this year.
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Targeted travel bans ‘too late’ to stop Omicron COVID-19 variant, experts say
Travel bans targeting African countries won’t work, experts say, because the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has already spread beyond their borders.
New COVID-19 variant has nations stopping air travel from southern Africa
Britain, Germany and Italy are among several nations enacting travel bans from southern Africa after a new COVID-19 variant was discovered there.
Canadians divided over when COVID-19 vaccine mandates should be lifted: poll
The Ipsos poll found the number of Canadians who want to wait longer for mandates to end is higher than those who want them gone immediately — but not by much.
South Africa criticizes Britain’s ‘rushed’ travel ban over new COVID-19 variant
Britain on Thursday temporarily banned flights from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Eswatini from Friday after detection of the new variant was announced.
Studies that shaped Canada’s breast cancer screening guidelines ‘flawed,’ researchers say
A group of Canadian and American researchers has called into question the 1980s studies that shaped Canada’s modern-day breast cancer screening guidelines.
COVID-19 vaccines should be prioritized for poor before kids, WHO says
The WHO’s interim guidance was issued as more regulatory agencies authorize certain vaccines for use in children, including Canada.
Ontario reports under 600 new COVID-19 cases, 7 more deaths
Of the 591 new cases recorded, 293 were unvaccinated people, 14 were partially vaccinated, 237 were fully vaccinated and for 47 people the vaccination status was unknown.
Germany to pass 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 as virus surges again
Germany is poised to pass the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 this week, a somber milestone that several of its neighbors crossed months ago but which Western Europe’s most populous nation had hoped to avoid. Discipline, a robust health care system and the rollout of multiple vaccines — one of them homegrown — were…
Hormone therapy could prevent thousands of miscarriages each year in Britain, new NHS guidance says
Pregnant women at risk of miscarrying will be prescribed a hormone therapy…
U.S. to require COVID-19 vaccines for non-residents crossing land border in January
The rules pertain to non-U.S. nationals. American citizens and permanent residents may still enter the U.S. regardless of their vaccination status, but face testing hurdles.
Children in Toronto 1st in Canada to receive pediatric COVID-19 vaccine, local officials say
City officials said 10 COVID-19 shots were provided ‘ahead of a limited number of youth vaccination appointments on Wednesday and a large number of vaccinations on Thursday.’
Canadiens’ great Guy Lafleur facing lung cancer again, strives to raise awareness
The Canadian Cancer Society estimates 21,000 people will die of lung cancer in this country in 2021 — some 25 per cent of all cancer deaths.
COVID-19: Middlesex-London reports 14 cases, 2 deaths on Monday
The MLHU reported 14 cases and two deaths Monday. SWPH reported 71 cases from Saturday to Monday as well as the death of a man in his 80s from Elgin County,
1st batch of COVID-19 vaccines for kids lands in Canada
A UPS plane bearing thousands of pediatric doses touched down in the rain at an airport in Hamilton, with Federal Procurement Minister Filomena Tassi on hand to mark its arrival.
‘COVID-19 endgame’: What will it take to go from pandemic to endemic?
Widespread vaccination and affordable treatments needed to curb global COVID-19 spread, but the disease won’t be wiped off the map, experts say.
Dutch police detain dozens as COVID-19 protests turn violent for 2nd night
Five police officers were injured in the Netherlands and at least 40 people detained across three provinces.
