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An infectious disease expert says he believes schools in Ontario will be forced to shut down once again to slow the surge of COVID-19 variant cases in the province.

Similar to past sequences of provincial modelling, Dr. Adalsteinn Brown says an increase in daily cases comes down strictly to how rapidly variants spread.

Posted: Mar 10, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 10 CHSLD Lionel-Émond near the Hull Hospital in Gatineau, Que., is the site of a COVID-19 outbreak with 43 residents and 18 staff members infected. Five people have died.(Hugo Belanger/Radio-Canada) Health experts are closely watching an outbreak at a long-term care home in Gatineau, Que., where residents and some staff have already been vaccinated. This week, a team of health workers and infectious disease specialists were deployed as re...

Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press Rees Kassen is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Ottawa. Murray Baron is a professor of medicine at McGill University. Pandemic restrictions are easing across the country, and last week brought multiple announcements from the federal government about additional vaccine supply. It’s been enough to make some people wonder: Could we be coming out of the dark and into the dawn with COVID-19? But the race is far from over. Cases attributable ...

Science experts advising the Ontario government say COVID-19 vaccinations in the province’s long-term care homes have saved hundreds of lives and prevented thousands of infections. The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table presented the findings in a report published today. The report says eight weeks after vaccinations began in December, COVID-19 infections were reduced by 89 […]

The report says eight weeks after vaccinations began in December, COVID-19 infections were reduced by 89 per cent among long-term care residents and by 79 per cent in workers

Vaccinations in Ontario long-term care homes have prevented hundreds of COVID-19 deaths and thousands of infections, scientists advising the province said in a report released Monday.

In today’s Big Story podcast, provinces are rolling out their vaccination plans for the general public, and they all seem pretty similar. After the initial push to vaccinate frontline health-care workers and residents of long-term care facilities, programs will proceed by age groups, starting with the 80+ cohort. It makes sense, as the elderly are […]

Date Time University of Toronto to aid in historic vaccination effort, host Mississauga clinic By the end of March, up to 2,000 doses a day of Health Canada-approved vaccine is expected to be delivered at a clinic located at U of T Mississauga that’s run by Trillium Health Partners and overseen by Peel Public Health (photo by Nick Iwanyshyn) The University of Toronto is hosting a COVID-19 vaccine clinic on its Mississauga campus and is exploring other ways to support the largest vaccination...

There were 269 people in hospital with the virus, including 55 in intensive care. The test positivity rate was 3.9 per cent. Two doctors who co-chair the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Associations pandemic committee are urging the Alberta government to hold off on easing restrictions on Monday. They also think restrictions should be tightened on bars, restaurants and pubs, which they say are overcrowded and not following existing rules. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says he still needs to see la...