East West Information

There were at least 156 COVID-19 related deaths reported in October, tying January 2021 for the worst month during the pandemic.

Nearly 600 people were killed by extreme temperatures in B.C. over the summer, according to new data from the provincial coroners' service.

A cyberattack appears to be behind a provincewide disruption of health-care services in Newfoundland and Labrador that has affected thousands of appointments and procedures, including those involving COVID-19 testing.

The global death toll from COVID-19 topped five million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health-care systems.

Novavax announced Monday in a news release that it had completed a rolling submission to Health Canada for authorization of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, a long-awaited development for the Maryland company, which has struggled to bring its doses for use in the global inoculation campaign.

A rush of eleventh-hour inoculations sharply reduced the number of New York City emergency responders who failed to meet the city's coronavirus vaccination requirement as it began to be enforced on Monday, officials said.

Researchers and public health workers say there are strategies that could help the four per cent of Canadians with a severe fear of needles get vaccinated against COVID-19 and they should be used more regularly across Canada.