OTTAWA — Health Canada should be ready to make an authorization decision about Pfizer’s Paxlovid antiviral treatment for COVID-19 in a week to 10 days, chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma said Thursday.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba schools will no longer notify close contacts of individual COVID-19 infections when students return to class next week.
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government said Wednesday everyone in the province will likely be exposed to COVID-19 in the coming weeks and the province’s effort is shifting away from trying to contain its spread.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba is opening up two new COVID-19 testing sites in Winnipeg on Redonda Street and Taylor Avenue.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba reported 36 more patients are now in hospital due to COVID-19 (coronavirus) on Wednesday, bringing the total number of patients receiving care to 454. Of those, 46 are in the intensive care unit.
Recent social media posts have fed into the notion that swabbing the throat with a COVID-19 rapid antigen test kit might yield more accurate results against the Omicron variant than only testing for virus in the nostrils.
WINNIPEG — A new urologic centre at the Health Sciences Centre will provide care for up to 10,000 Manitobans annually when it opens next year.
OTTAWA — Federal COVID-19 vaccine contracts mean Canada should get enough doses to give two or three more mRNA shots to every Canadian, every year until at least 2024.
Manitoba will make COVID-19 rapid antigen tests available for critical service workers in order for them to return to work sooner.
Children in Alberta and British Columbia returned to the classroom Monday as surging COVID-19 cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals in several provinces and prompted the United States to advise its citizens to “avoid travel” to Canada.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba continued to see a climb in COVID-19 hospitalizations Monday as gathering limits remained in place and students started a week of remote learning.
Manitoba reported 81 more patients are now in hospital due to COVID-19, bringing the total number of patients receiving care to 378.
