COVID-19

Britain, Germany and Italy are among several nations enacting travel bans from southern Africa after a new COVID-19 variant was discovered there.

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• November 26, 2021

The Ipsos poll found the number of Canadians who want to wait longer for mandates to end is higher than those who want them gone immediately — but not by much.

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• November 26, 2021

Germany is poised to pass the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 this week, a somber milestone that several of its neighbors crossed months ago but which Western Europe’s most populous nation had hoped to avoid. Discipline, a robust health care system and the rollout of multiple vaccines — one of them homegrown — were…

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• November 24, 2021

The MLHU reported 14 cases and two deaths Monday. SWPH reported 71 cases from Saturday to Monday as well as the death of a man in his 80s from Elgin County,

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• November 22, 2021

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and South Asian people in the U.K. had higher death rates than their white compatriots, according to Britain’s statistics office.

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• November 21, 2021

Self-described anti-vaccine groups are calling for a boycott of Chapman’s ice cream after the company offered a pay rise to staff vaccinated against COVID-19.

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• November 19, 2021

Children aged five to 11 will soon be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Health Canada announced. The vaccine will require two doses of 10 micrograms each.

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• November 19, 2021