Thursday will mark one month since the first coronavirus vaccinations were administered in Canada, but it will likely be several more months until the majority of Canadians have received their shots.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said as recently as Tuesday
Canada’s territories will have enough doses to fully vaccinate 75 per cent of their adult populations against the coronavirus “by the end of March,” Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said on Wednesday. Read more: Coronavirus vaccines arrive in remote
Nunavut’s health minister is pleading with residents of Arviat, where a COVID-19 outbreak continued to grow Friday, to stay home.Lorne Kusugak said if people living in Arviat follow isolation rules, the outbreak could be over in two weeks.The community
The federal government is laying plans for the procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The approval of a vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech is said to be imminent.The second vaccine in line for approval in Canada is from Moderna.
The federal government is laying plans for the procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, inking contracts with seven potential manufacturers and saying six million doses could arrive in the country in the first quarter of 2021.The most recent development
Ottawa is contributing nearly $20 million in federal funding to the Nunavut government and Inuit communities to help combat a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.The funding announced late Wednesday by the ministries of Indigenous services, northern affairs and economic
It has been just over two weeks since Nunavut declared its first case of COVID-19, but it’s still unknown how 84 people were infected so quickly in the territory.Nunavut is home to about 39,000 people. Its 25 fly-in-only communities are spread over
WHITEHORSE — Yukon says it has three new cases of COVID-19 with all the infections in Watson Lake.Dr. Brendan Hanley, chief medical officer of health, says the three people belong to the same “family cluster” and it’s not yet
Nunavut is reporting its first confirmed cases of COVID-19.The territory’s chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, says in a news release there are two cases at the Hope Bay gold mine 125 km southwest of Cambridge Bay.Patterson says
This study presented a comprehensive picture of the numbers, rates, and increased trends of the burden of diabetes in 195 countries and territories over the past 28 years. In 2017, the global prevalence number and DALYs number of diabetes reached 476.0