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Winnipeg Free Press By: Shawn Jeffords, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 2:29 PM CST Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 TORONTO - Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccinations based on neighbourhood, as well as age, could prevent thousands of cases and reduce the number of deaths due to the pandemic, Ontarios science advisors said in a new report Friday. A woman receives her COVID-19 vaccine at a vacc...

Ontario should prioritize vaccine rollout by neighbourhood as well as age: experts TORONTO — Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccinations based on neighbourhood, as well as age, could prevent thousands of cases and reduce the number of deaths due to the pandemic, Ontarios science advisors said in a new report Friday. Feb 26, 2021 3:29 PM By: Canadian Press TORONTO — Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccinations based on neighbourhood, as well as age, could prevent thousands of case...

  TORONTO -- A study of select COVID-19 cases in the Toronto-area found the highly infectious B.1.1.7 variant accelerated its spread "10-fold" during the month of January and is well on its way to dominate all known positive samples in the region before the end of February. Four Public Health Ontario doctors observed more than 11,400 positive COVID-19 specimens collected by Dynacare Laboratories from areas including Etobicoke, Markham, Maple and Brampton between Dec. 15, 2020 and Feb. 3, 20...

Article content Respiratory pandemics come along every few decades. Serious ones, every 50 or 100 years. And while the way we have come to live may seem so alien and unnatural, plagues have been “a part of our story for a very long time,” Dr. Nicholas Christakis writes in his new book on this newest plague. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Its only the end of the beginning. COVID-19 will be with us for years Back to video Since the birth of ...

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Conflicting messages from public health official and government decision makers are causing confusion and trepidation about Tuesday's reopening across most of the province outside Toronto. 

In a news conference at Queen’s Park, Adalsteinn Brown (co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table) and Dr. David Williams (Ontario’s [...]

Super-contagious strains of COVID-19 could lead to another uptick in case numbers by the end of the month despite the recent significant drop in infections, new modelling data released by the Ontario government shows.

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says March Break is being postponed this year in an effort to keep students safe and "limit community transmission."

"If the B117 variant behaves as it did in the United Kingdom, cases will start to grow here again in late February or early March."