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If your plans for the Easter long weekend include getting together with family or friends, medical officers of health for Waterloo region and Guelph have some recommendation on how to stay safe.

With a lack of PCR testing available in Ontario, public health officials have pivoted to using other data sources to determine how the province is managing the spread of COVID-19

Ontario is reporting another increase in the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19, despite some encouraging wastewater surveillance data which suggests the sixth wave of the pandemic may have reached a plateau.

TORONTO — Ontario's chief medical officer of health will recommend that the province extend remaining mask mandates – in settings such as hospitals, long-term care and public transit – as new COVID-19 modelling suggests a tenuous plateau in transmiss

TORONTO - Ontarios chief medical officer of health will recommend that the province extend remainin...

TORONTO — Ontario's chief medical officer of health will recommend that the province extend remaining mask mandates – in settings such as hospitals, long-term care and public transit – as new COVID-19 modelling suggests a tenuous plateau in transmiss

Montfort Hospital says it will cancel some non-emergency and non-urgent procedures starting Tuesday because so many staff members are in isolation as a result of COVID-19.

Wastewater signals suggest COVID-19 transmission in may have peaked in Ontario, but the province’s pandemic advisers say it’s unclear where the trend is…

Both the premier and Health Minister Christine Elliott also repeated Thursday that Ontarios hospital system has the capacity to handle any increase in cases related to the current pandemic wave.

Researchers found that, while children transmitted COVID-19 at a lower rate than adults, they still contributed to spread within households.