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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will provide an update on the federal government’s response to COVID-19.
Tune in to the livestream above.
Shandro to give update on expanding rapid testing
Health Minister Tyler Shandro will give an update on the province’s rapid point-of-care testing program today at 11 a.m.
Joining Shandro is Dennis Banks, vice-president of Suncor’s Edmonton refinery, and Dr. Mark Joffe, vice president and medical director of Alberta Health Services.
Watch for a livestream of the press conference here.
When it only takes ‘seconds’ to become infected with COVID variants, how do you protect yourself?
It could take only seconds to get infected with the U.K. variant of the COVID-19 virus.
Health officials across the country are warning Canadians of the potential for increased contagiousness of the variants, meaning they can spread more quickly and widely than the one we’ve been living with for the past year.
In Ontario, public health officials have warned anything other than a “transient” exposure to the U.K. variant — your hand momentarily touching that of a grocery store cashier as you receive a bag, or walking by an infected person in a hallway — counts as high risk.
Read more.
Theory that COVID-19 leaked from a lab ‘extremely unlikely,’ says WHO
A World Health Organization investigation in China found that the coronavirus most likely jumped to humans through an animal host or frozen wildlife products that carried the pathogen, and that there was no evidence of significant outbreaks in the country before December 2019.
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