Skip to content
×
Join our Newsletter
Join Our Newsletter
Sign in or register for your free account
Messages
Post a Listing
Your Listings
Your Profile
Your Subscriptions
Payment History
Sign Out
Registered Users
Already have an account?
Sign In
New Users
Create a free account.
Register
Sign up for Daily Headlines
Sign up for Notifications
Contact Us
Home
News
Local News
Opioid Crisis
B.C.
National
World
Covid-19
Business Wire
National Business
Local Sports
National Sports
Opinion
Opinion
Letters
Submit a Letter
Blogs
Events
Life & Arts
Life
Entertainment
Food and Drink
The Mix
Driving
More Lifestyles
Features
Islander
Travel
Homes
Sponsored
Charities
Contests
Crossword
Local Events
Special Sections
GuidedBy
Spotlights
Gas Prices
Classifieds
Classifieds
Celebrations
Place an Ad
Now Hiring
Obituaries
View Obituaries
Place an Obituary
Connect
Contact Us
Daily Headlines Email
Subscribe
E-Edition
Search Type
Site
Listings
Search
Join our Newsletter
Home
Coronavirus (COVID-19) National News
Coronavirus (COVID-19) National News
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to defend his record in high-stakes grilling at COVID inquiry
LONDON (AP) — Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson , who led Britain through the coronavirus pandemic before being ousted by scandal, is set to defend his record on Wednesday at a public inquiry into the country’s handling of COVID-19 .
Dec 6, 2023 1:37 AM
Read more >
Health Canada authorizes updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine targeting XBB variant
OTTAWA — Health Canada authorized Novavax's updated COVID-19 vaccine targeting the XBB.1.5 variant on Tuesday.
Dec 5, 2023 2:17 PM
Read more >
Poland's former President Lech Walesa, 80, hospitalized with COVID-19
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, Poland's 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been hospitalized with a bad case of COVID-19, an aide said Tuesday.
Dec 5, 2023 12:53 PM
Read more >
Students around the world suffered huge learning setbacks during the pandemic, study finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Students around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the COVID-19 pandemic, with declines in test scores so widespread that the United States climbed in global rankings simply by falling behind less sharpl
Dec 5, 2023 2:04 AM
Read more >
COVID-19 and flu set to peak over holiday season in Ontario; Moore urges vaccinations
TORONTO — There is a lot of COVID-19 circulating in Ontario right now, and levels of both that virus and influenza are on the rise, set to peak over the holiday season, the province's top doctor said Monday.
Dec 4, 2023 12:05 PM
Read more >
From COVID-19 to alien contact, conspiracy theories are popular in Canada: survey
OTTAWA — The Earth is flat. We have been secretly contacted by intelligent beings from other planets. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not land on the moon in 1969.
Dec 3, 2023 6:29 PM
Read more >
The UK's former health secretary testifies at COVID inquiry that he argued for an earlier lockdown
LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s former health secretary told a COVID-19 inquiry Thursday that the British government would have saved many lives if it had acted sooner and imposed a national lockdown weeks earlier than it did in March 2020.
Nov 30, 2023 9:14 AM
Read more >
Anthony Fauci will testify before Congress on COVID origins and the US pandemic response
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Fauci, former chief White House medical adviser, is expected to testify before Congress early next year as part of Republicans' yearslong investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and the U.S. response to the disease.
Nov 30, 2023 7:57 AM
Read more >
US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nov 29, 2023 1:00 PM
Read more >
Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts 'zero-COVID' after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton swab toward her tonsils.
Nov 27, 2023 9:52 AM
Read more >
1
2
3
4
5
6
>
>>
×
Be the first to read breaking stories.
Enable push notifications on your device. Disable anytime.
No thanks
Subscribe
No thanks
Subscribe