The vast majority of Winnipeg businesses – even those that kept rules in place after the province’s March 1 removal of the proof of vax requirement – have slowly but surely dropped use of the Manitoba card and app system.Read more… Lethbridge outdoor patio and parklet program a big win...
chief: Subhra Priyadarshini Editors: Rebecca Dargie, Sara Phillips, Amanda Rider Art and design: Paula Lock, Marian Karam Photographic editor: Amany Shawkey Project management: Shaimaa Ramadan Creative director: Wojtek Urbanek Subhra Priyadarshini introduces this special COVID-19 issue of Nature India...
The point man for Canada’s vaccine rollout is aiming to ensure provinces aren’t left scrambling when doses don’t arrive as planned, as Ontario reported a record number of new daily COVID-19 infections. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin said 855,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine tha...
Based on previous experience in other viral infections2, the use of convalescent plasma has been proposed as a therapeutic form of passive immunization for patients with acute COVID-19 (refs. 3,4). Early in the pandemic, several small randomized trials found no difference in clinical outcomes5...
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario this week stepped away from it, offering AstraZeneca to people at least 40 years old. Quebec chose to offer it to people who are at least 45. The Atlantic provinces, where the COVID-19 pandemic is under contro...
Quebec intends to bring in the passports, beginning in September, for anyone wanting to visit non-essential businesses in parts of the province where the COVID-19 rate is high. Manitoba has been issuing proof-of-immunization cards to residents who are two weeks past their second shot....
Anyone outside of those three groups who have tested positive for COVID-19 must notify their own close contacts. Meanwhile, Manitoba health officials are increasing restrictions in the Southern health region, following a similar move recently in Winnipeg. ...