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A Montreal long-term care home is now facing a class-action lawsuit over the alleged mismanagement of a COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. A Quebec judge authorized the lawsuit which alleges the private residence failed to follow proper protocol to manage the virus. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for April 8, 2026.

It’s understandable the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship is triggering unease and flashbacks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but doctors underscore there are big differences between the two diseases. As Mike Armstrong explains, hantavirus has already been tracked and managed by doctors for decades.

Four Canadians exposed to a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, are expected to arrive in British Columbia on Sunday under strict isolation protocols. At a press conference on Sunday, B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said none of the passengers are showing symptoms, but warned the virus has an incubation period...

Cases of respiratory illness are on the rise across the Peterborough region including a COVID-19 outbreak at Cobourg’s hospital. Public health is urging residents to take precautions as ICU visits increase. Marc Woodhouse reports.

Wall Street stocks saw their biggest one-day selloff since COVID’s outbreak tore through financial markets worldwide Thursday, on worries about the damage U.S. President Donald Trump’s newest set of tariffs could inflict on economies across continents, including his own. Anne Gaviola has more on how Trump’s tariffs tanked markets.

There was a new warning from Alberta’s premier on Monday for scammers trying to prey on people during the COVID pandemic. Jason Kenney says if they’re caught, they’ll be facing “the full force of the law.” Gil Tucker reports.

With the holiday season just around the corner, some New Brunswick nursing homes are experiencing outbreaks of COVID-19. The spread of the virus at this time of year is prompting calls for more funding and better measures. Robert Lothian reports.

Despite health restrictions being lifted, Peterborough’s homeless shelter system is still feeling the impacts of COVID-19. The city reports that all shelters have experienced outbreaks in the past three months. Sam Houpt reports…

Quebec is urging the public to exercise caution as the province braces for the 6th wave of the pandemic, driven by an even more transmissible Omicron sub-variant. Dr. Mitch joins Global’s Laura Casella to discuss what safety measures are most affective against the latest outbreak.

As the dim sum cart made its way around the China Pearl restaurant in Boston, every table was packed — a welcomed change for many restaurants, bakeries and businesses in the city’s Chinatown. Many business in the area have experienced a heavy drop in sales due to fears of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading and...

Global health authorities are still working to determine who carried the COVID-19 coronavirus into a meeting of a firm selling gas metres, which then spread the virus to five countries, infecting over a dozen people. Authorities are, however, still trying to determine if the case was a so-called “super-spreading” event like that of SARS at...

Organizers from the Mobile World Congress said Thursday that the decision to cancel the major telecoms conference later this month in Barcelona was due to concerns for people’s health and safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and was “not about money.”

China’s Health Commission said on Thursday that the death toll in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak had increased by 254 to a total of 1,367 as of midnight local time and more than 52,500 cases had been confirmed.

A cruise ship that had been turned away by five separate countries over concerns someone on board may have the COVID-19 coronavirus finally found a place to dock on Thursday as it arrived in Cambodia, with passengers and crew expressing relief following two weeks at sea. The Westerdam is, however, calling for a postponement of...

Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Thursday that 12 Canadians had tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus and they were working with Japanese officials to ensure consular services were being provided to all nationals onboard. He also said authorities may allow for some passengers to disembark and be quarantined onshore and Canada was waiting for...

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam spoke at a press conference on Feb. 18, where she said that evacuees from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship will have to undergo yet another quarantine once they exit the ship, in wake of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus called COVID-19.

Apple became the latest company, and the biggest, to flag economic damage as a result of COVID-19, saying supply has become a problem with factories in China still slow to reopen and a dip in sales of devices.

Health Minister Patty Hajdu said on Monday that they were working with the manifests of the Westerdam cruise ship to determine the travel paths of Canadians who were on board, following a report a woman who was on board tested positive for COVID-19. Also noting to those who have been travelling internationally in an area...

Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu is in Vancouver to discuss what the government is doing in relation to the outbreak of COVID-19.

We sit down with Bill Bu, former Wuhan resident who is now a businessman in Halifax. Bu recently raised thousands of dollars locally to donate masks and supplies to be sent to China to help with the outbreak.