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Health Canada is holding off on distributing Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine after it became clear the doses that arrived in the country on Wednesday were processed in the same U.S. plant that's been mired in quality-control problems.

U.S. President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci says Canadian health officials don't appear to be doing anything wrong in their response to the global pandemic, despite rising caseloads in most parts of the country.

The province is aiming to vaccinate 12-17 year-olds as soon as this summer, once it has made doses available to all adults and ensured they are safe for younger people.

Anxiety — not a problem with the shots — that caused reactions in dozens of people at coronavirus vaccine clinics in five states, U.S. health officials have concluded.

Two human cases of influenza variants normally found in pigs have been detected in Manitoba.

Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data they say would allow them to save lives as COVID-19 cases climbed again on Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis.

Starting Friday, Quebecers in their 50s can begin making appointments to receive a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and soon after the rest of the adult population will be able to do so as well. 

A cross-border vaccination agreement between the Manitoba and North Dakota governments is expanding to allow teachers and education workers in the province to get vaccinated in the U.S., Premier Brian Pallister says.

With millions of doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines anticipated to arrive in Ontario, the province's vaccine task force says it can accelerate its timeline so that all adults will be able to register for a first dose by the end of May.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed a ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars in the United States, a win for anti-tobacco and civil rights groups, and a move that could erase a huge chunk of sales for cigarette manufacturers.

As Indians scramble to secure oxygen and public health experts warn infections aren't likely to fall much over the next few weeks, India's devastating second wave is being blamed on several factors, including mass gatherings and complacency about public health guidelines.

COVID patients from jammed intensive care units in southern Ontario are being moved to hospitals in the north, which have their own overcrowding problems.

Alberta is ratcheting up the fight in two COVID-19 hot spots by expanding age eligibility for vaccines and directing delivery of more doses.

Medical experts are seeing more COVID-19 infections among Canadian youth, but say serious illness or death remains rare for children and teens. Even so, parents need to remain vigilant in the months ahead — since it’ll be awhile before kids get the protection of vaccinations.

Several of Quebec's regions saw a spike in cases earlier this month, putting strain on the health-care system and leading to tighter restrictions, but the province’s largest city has so far escaped the worst of the third wave. Here's a look at why.

After months of urgent calls about the need for paid sick leave by medical professionals, labour advocates, political leaders and even top doctors from some of the province's hardest-hit regions, the Ontario government has announced a plan to provide three paid sick days through a temporary program ending in September.

More than 2,000 people who returned to Canada since the federal government brought in mandatory hotel quarantines have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than a quarter of them were infected with a variant of concern.

A B.C. Provincial Court Judge says a Vancouver man who thumbed his nose at COVID-19-related restrictions by turning his swanky downtown penthouse into a packed makeshift nightclub last January is no better than the drug dealers fuelling the deadly opioid crisis.

Canada's domestic vaccine manufacturing capability has been hollowed out, leaving the country entirely dependent on foreign sources for COVID-19 vaccines. What happened?

Ontario’s auditor general says in a new report that the long-term care sector and the ministry that oversees it were ill-prepared for COVID-19.

India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of more than 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a surge of new infections devastated dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelmed health-care systems on the brink of collapse.

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People in Nova Scotia are facing new rules Wednesday after officials imposed a provincewide lockdown for at least two weeks to deal with an uptick in COVID-19 cases.

The first doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine are set to arrive this week in Ontario, where one expert says they could do a world of good for some of the province's most vulnerable. 

New U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance is that fully vaccinated Americans can forgo masks unless they are in a big crowd of strangers, and those who are unvaccinated can go without a face covering outside in some cases, too.

In the darkest days of his battle with COVID-19, 31-year-old Canadian Olympian Alexander Kopacz says he drew up a will, gave his goodbyes to his family and friends, and contemplated whether he had lived a good and fulfilling life. 

Albertans in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s are ending up in intensive care with COVID-19 at a higher rate than ever before, as variants have taken hold and case rates have soared among these age groups, most of whom have not yet been vaccinated.

There are now 47 cases of a mysterious neurological disease that's been identified in a cluster of individuals living in the northeastern and southeastern parts of New Brunswick.

Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll toward 200,000.

Though the world is more than a year into the pandemic and the United States has a robust vaccine rollout, Michigan nurse Nikki Hillis-Walters, who used to work in Windsor, Ont., says this time around is worse than when COVID-19 first hit. 

The intensive care unit at the Jewish General Hospital has treated nearly 300 COVID-19 patients since the pandemic began. As cases and hospitalizations begin to decline, staff hope this third wave is the last one.

Manitoba is in a "very precarious" place, the province's top doctor said Monday, as officials announced stepped up restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.

Conservative senators are holding up the start of a long-awaited, legally required special parliamentary committee that is supposed to review Canada's assisted dying regime.

The White House tells The Associated Press that the U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca once the vaccine clears federal safety reviews, with 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the coming months.

Millions of children whose immunizations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Africa, are now at risk from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio, yellow fever and diphtheria, United Nations (U.N.) health agencies warned on Monday.

A teenage girl in Brampton, Ont., is among the youngest Canadians to die with COVID-19 after her family said she contracted the coronavirus amid the province's devastating third wave. 

The European Union's executive branch said Monday that it has launched legal action against coronavirus vaccine-maker AstraZeneca for failing to respect the terms of its contract with the 27-nation bloc.

Canadians who hoard are finding it difficult to control their disorder due to COVID-19 restrictions. They are "already among our most isolated clients ... and the pandemic just made that all so much harder," says Lucie Hager, who helps hoarders get their lives back on track.

India's new coronavirus infections hit a new high for a fifth day on Monday, as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to send urgent medical aid to help battle the crisis overwhelming its hospitals.

After a sluggish start, Canada's vaccination efforts are starting to pay off, with COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths among the oldest Canadians now dropping at a faster rate than in younger adults who are less likely to be vaccinated yet, according to a CBC News analysis.

Canada's chief public health officer says the health-care system is under increasing strain with a more than 20 per cent increase in COVID-19-related hospitalizations and intensive care unit patients over a one-week stretch.

Vaccine shortages at Toronto pop-up clinics are leaving many residents in the city's hotspot postal codes unable to secure a COVID-19 vaccine and disheartened by their prospects at getting one.

Canadians have nothing to fear from AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine doses made in the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday as he rolled up his sleeve to set an example for the country.

Canada has secured tens of millions of COVID-19 booster doses to contain the virus in the years ahead, and a new federal forecast is offering hope that summer could bring a reprieve from lockdown restrictions if 75 per cent of Canadians get their shot.

Some COVID-19 patients are now deteriorating so quickly that they die before they can seek medical attention, Ontario's chief coroner says. He calls it an "unfortunate and sad" phenomenon that shows how serious the virus can be.

An Ontario man whose father suffered a severe stroke from a rare blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is revealing new details about the condition for the first time in hopes of helping Canadians better understand the risk.

Hamilton Public Health Services has confirmed a man in his 60s experience a rare blood clotting condition after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19.

Use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine should be resumed in the United States despite evidence that it is linked to extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots, advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended on Friday.

Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is now recommending to expand the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to all Canadians over the age of 30.

The European Commission says it expects to seal the world's biggest vaccine deal within days, buying up to 1.8 billion doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine over the next two years.