Coronavirus (COVID-19) National News

Increasing concerns over more infectious COVID-19 variants has led some to wonder whether our face masks need an upgrade. Should we layer two masks on top of each other, as politicians and spectators at the U.S.

Pop quiz: What day is it? Answer: Does it matter? Nearly a year in, the monotony of quarantine seems to have perpetually set the clocks to half-past-who-cares. You wake up, and it’s almost like the last 24 hours didn’t happen.

B.C. recorded four new COVID-19 deaths on January 27 – the lowest total of new deaths in a day since November 21, when there were also four deaths.

Premier John Horgan marked the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 infection to emerge in B.C. by admonishing rule-breakers facilitating the spread of the virus.

More than a month before January 28, 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in B.C., the virus, then-named 2019-nCoV, was starting to spread in Wuhan, China.

Qantas Airways, the largest airline in Australia, has already stated that it will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for all of its international air travellers.

The petition also calls for the vaccination of the 200,000 to 300,000 truckers and 25,000 to 50,000 essential workers that make up the majority of US-Canada land-border crossings.

Despite B.C. recently detecting new, increasingly infectious strains of COVID-19, the province’s number of newly identified cases has been trending lower in recent days.

A prospective COVID-19 vaccine touted as a made-in-Canada response has begun human clinical trials in Toronto, and the company says it's already preparing a followup that will target more infectious variants.

The CEO and president of Great Canadian Gaming Corp. (TSX:GC) has resigned from his job after he and his wife were accused of travelling from B.C. to the Yukon to jump the coronavirus vaccination queue.