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Thursday marks 100 days since B.C. health officials issued their first warning on COVID-19, and in that time, the province's total has risen to 2,112 confirmed cases.

Arlene Reid died on Monday, as her daughter frantically performed CPR while waiting for paramedics to arrive.

The death rate from COVID-19 will remain very high for the foreseeable future, Quebec Premier François Legault warned Thursday, even as he sought to address criticism of his government's plan to ease pandemic restrictions in the coming weeks. 

Premier Jason Kenney will detail his government's plan for a staged relaunch of the economy at a news conference on Thursday.

A Toronto doctor posted a moment of pure joy on Twitter: an intensive care team celebrating a patient no longer needing a tube to help them breathe.

The upswing in new cases comes after the province saw its lowest daily increase in three weeks yesterday, prompting Premier Doug Ford to tell reporters during his daily briefing that Ontario is "getting close to opening up."

There have been just two new cases in the past 13 days.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

With people cooped up at home, either alone all day or looking for a spare moment to themselves, many use that time to sort out their thoughts. For some, that inner monologue spills out. But experts say it's normal.

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power says China's actions early on in the pandemic 'absolutely' should be investigated and that holding the regime accountable is in Canada's 'moral' and 'strategic' interests.

Like a lonely castaway on an island lost at sea, Sam Cramer is waiting for her next message in a bottle to arrive.

Today CBC News is launching a project called Lives Remembered, our commitment to honouring and understanding more about the Canadians who have lost their lives to COVID-19.

As millions of Canadians eye the imminent arrival of better weather and feel the impact of six weeks stuck largely at home, some are wondering whether spending more time outdoors is a risk worth taking amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The top U.S. infectious disease official says concerns over leaks compelled him to reveal data on Gilead Sciences Inc.'s experimental drug remdesivir, the first in a scientifically rigorous clinical trial to show benefit in treating COVID-19.

The World Health Organization has come under fire for its response to the global coronavirus pandemic, but experts say it's only as powerful as its weakest link.

An Alberta meat-packing plant hit by the largest single-site COVID-19 outbreak in Canada plans to reopen within days after shutting down for two weeks when hundreds of workers fell ill with the coronavirus and one woman died.

An experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major study, U.S. government and drug company officials say.

The Wood Buffalo region has recorded its first death related to spring flooding that has forced thousands of people from their homes. 

Hundreds of times every week during this pandemic, doctors and nurses treating critically ill COVID-19 patients in the U.S. steel themselves to insert ventilator breathing tubes.

While today's figures represent a considerably lower daily growth rate than what the province has typically seen throughout April, public health officials have cautioned against inferring trends from any single data point.

Some simple math reveals a sobering reality about the current state of COVID-19 in Canada, and indicates continued action to contain the virus is necessary.

Some doctors say the pandemic is making it harder to provide medically assisted deaths to patients who request them, due to shortages of protective masks and gowns and last-minute scrambles to find places to perform the procedure.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

Alberta doctors working in some rural and remote areas say they could lose thousands of dollars a year from government changes to their pay.

Despite six weeks of workplace closures, physical distancing and stay-at-home messages, people are still contracting COVID-19 in the community, and public health officials don't have a firm handle on why or how it's happening.  

COVID-19 is not hitting children in Canada or other countries as hard as adults, but doctors who care for children are on the lookout for unusual symptoms, including "COVID toes."

The way in which COVID-19 has affected long-term care homes reflects how they have responded to the pandemic and the impact of early actions, say advocates for residents and leaders of the unions representing workers at the homes.

An exclusive look inside the specialized COVID-19 unit at Vancouver General Hospital and how health-care workers leading it are coping with the pandemic

A 24-hour hotline for long-term care homes launched before the pandemic is proving to be extra valuable now that many are dealing with COVID-19.

Disruptions to immunization programs across South Asia because of the coronavirus pandemic are upending attempts to vaccinate millions of children against deadly diseases, UNICEF warned on Tuesday, a day after the World Health Organization raised a similar concern.

Canada's medical doctors are calling on the federal government to be more open and transparent about the supply of personal protective equipment, saying pervasive anxiety on the front lines of the pandemic fight could be eased by more information.

There have been problems with COVID-19 testing across Canada, and it's not clear whether those problems have been fixed to prepare the county to ease restrictions.

If you get COVID-19, when does it get bad? How long do people spend in ICU and why is that such a challenge? Here’s a closer look at the progression of COVID-19, based on studies from around the world and interviews with doctors on the front lines.

One hundred and three people have now died of COVID-19 in B.C. after three more deaths were recorded over the last 48 hours.

Ontario must see a "consistent two-to-four week decrease in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases" before the government can start loosening restrictions and begin reopening the economy, says a new framework for reopening released by the province.

Canada's top doctor told CBC News the federal government could have made earlier efforts to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from sweeping across the country — but moves to close borders and screen travellers for the illness sooner might not have made much of a difference.

An associate professor of biology in Saskatchewan has raised the ire of other scientists after he claimed that most people in the province had already contracted the novel coronavirus and recovered from it, rendering the COVID-19 lockdown unnecessary.

The head of the emergency department at a hospital in Truro, N.S., says staff are heartbroken over last weekend's mass shooting but that the fallout from the tragedy means their work is far from over.

'We have a highly motivated team, and everybody is willing to step up and do as much as they can,' says head of Saskatchewan lab, one of the most advanced infectious disease research facilities in the world.

As countries compete ferociously for resources to fend off the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Canada may want to start planning ahead for another viral wave set to sweep over the planet: the annual influenza epidemic.

The pandemic has exposed the dismaying inadequacies of Canada's long-term care system for seniors, writes Dr. Amit Arya.

B.C. is handling COVID-19 nearly as well as one could hope. Now comes the tricky part — keeping the virus in check, slowly easing some restrictions and maintaining social cohesion. All at the same time.

Vectors of the coronavirus — family and health-care workers returning from abroad — carried it into the province’s long-term care institutions, home to those most vulnerable to the disease, well before Premier François Legault banned all visits in mid-March.

A growing chorus of experts is calling for the widespread use of masks to slow the spread of COVID-19 and suggest it may be a key factor in why some countries seemingly have their outbreaks under control while others are completely overwhelmed. 

Flattening the COVID-19 infection curve, securing funding to pay for overtime, and finding a consistent supply of personal protective equipment and COVID-19 tests for every patient are all requirements for surgeries to ramp up again, the surgeon-in-chief at one of Canada's largest hospitals says.

The first official case of COVID-19 in New York City was announced on March 1, but researchers estimate there were potentially thousands of cases in the city by then. Faced with that level of spread, New York was destined to become the epicentre of the outbreak in the U.S., experts say.

When Kym Murphy, a 54-year-old school bus driver in Rothesay, N.B., started to feel unwell, she didn't suspect COVID-19. After all, she was washing her hands, she was practising physical distancing and importantly, she hadn't been travelling.

Doctors and health experts urged people not to drink or inject disinfectant on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested scientists should investigate inserting the cleaning agent into the body as a way to combat COVID-19.

Canadians got a glimpse of how one province plans to handle a phased reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday as Saskatchewan's premier and top doctor offered details about a recovery plan they say will start in early May. Here's a look at what's happening in Canada, the U.S. and around the world.

With daycares and schools closed across Canada, immunization requirements aren't being enforced by public health officials, and that has doctors worried about a possible surge in measles, whooping cough and other serious, vaccine-preventable illnesses.