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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...

More than 300 American cruise liner passengers, including 14 who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, were flown home to military bases in the United States, after two weeks under quarantine off Japan.

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.

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

B.C. has revealed yet another case of the novel coronavirus, a close contact of a Lower Mainland woman who had recently travelled to Iran. Ted Chernecki has more.

A Beijing flower shop owner faces a 90 per cent drop in sales due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, known as COVID-19, being felt in China.

Passengers shared their accounts and reactions to another passenger being removed from a plane at Winnipeg’s Richardson International Airport with a possible case of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that the novel coronavirus pandemic has “exposed weaknesses” in Canada. He said vulnerable people in this country are “continuing to slip through the cracks.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday defended Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, saying he has “all the confidence in the world” in the province’s top doctor. Ford said he takes “personal offence” to the calls for Williams to resign because of his work “around the clock” during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Manitoba has 67 new cases of the novel coronavirus, Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public health officer, announced at a press conference on Thursday. The new cases bring Manitoba’s total to 863 active cases, with a total of 2,344. Deaths remain at 27.

The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed on Wednesday 26 experts to form its new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of novel pathogens, including several who served on its mission to Wuhan, China, to probe the source of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The statement named the 26 proposed members ahead of a two-week period of public...

The fourth wave of COVID-19 is impacting many parts of Canada and medical professionals are warning that if action isn’t taken soon, the country could deal with a worse situation than it has seen in the previous three waves of the novel coronavirus. Jamie Mauracher reports.

Many of us still have questions about the novel coronavirus and how it caused a disease that rapidly took over the globe. On Wednesday, two Trent University experts provided some answers. Noor Ibrahim has more.

As more cases of novel coronavirus begin to spread to Canada, so does a mass amount of misinformation. And one of the biggest culprits according to experts is social media. Jamie Mauracher reports.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that the staff onboard the USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy hospital ship bound for New York City, would treat patients who are not infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, but who are in urgent need of care. Trump said this would free up hospital resources...

One more person has died of the novel coronavirus in British Columbia, health officials said Saturday while announcing 92 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the largest jump in cases in a single day. The province has now confirmed a total of 884 cases of the novel coronavirus disease, of which 45% have recovered.

Pope Francis on Sunday backed United Nations secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for a global ceasefire during the novel coronavirus pandemic, so that the world can focus on fighting the virus. Pope Francis made the appeal during his weekly blessing, delivered from the papal library.

U.K. Housing Minister Robert Jenrick spoke to reporters on Sunday about the country’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, stating that the U.K. is on “emergency footing” for the first time “since the Second World War.”

City of Toronto general manager of emergency management Matthew Pegg said on Friday that people who ignore or defy Ontario law by opening non-essential businesses, or use public spaces that are closed due to the novel coronavirus, will face fines.

The stars of the 2011 film “Contagion”, a fictional film about a deadly virus that leads to a pandemic across the world, reunited this week and filmed public service announcements about COVID-19. Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle, each recorded messages urging people to listen to experts, wash their hands with soap...