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Samantha Monckton lost her dad, Garry, to COVID-19 on April 2.

The federal government is rolling out new rules requiring that all air travellers wear face masks covering their noses and mouths while in transit.

Western Canada's largest private-sector union is proposing that people be limited to one trip to the grocery store each week to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among customers and workers.

Dick Pound, Canada's longtime International Olympic Committee member, doesn't foresee being able to delay the Tokyo Games another year. Still, the delay could provide a positive outcome if everything goes as planned, he says.

Nearly one month ago, Effie Poole was laid off from her job as a server when the restaurant she worked at in Burlington, Ont., closed due to COVID-19. 

Personal support worker Christine Mandegarian died in hospital on Wednesday night, marking the second time an Ontario health-care worker has passed away after contracting COVID-19.

With COVID-19 smothering the economy at large and closures strangling many small businesses, the government is creating a commercial rent relief program in partnership with the provinces and territories.

The U.S. coronavirus crisis took a sharp political turn on Friday as President Donald Trump lashed out at four Democratic governors over their handling of the pandemic after having conceded that states bear ultimate control of restrictions to contain the outbreak.

The U.S. coronavirus crisis took a sharp political turn on Friday as President Donald Trump lashed out at four Democratic governors over their handling of the pandemic after having conceded that states bear ultimate control of restrictions to contain the outbreak.

The governors of Michigan, Florida and other states outlined tentative steps on Friday to reopen their economies, a day after President Donald Trump unveiled guidelines for a phased lifting of restrictions for stopping the coronavirus pandemic. But New York's governor said that it was vital for testing to be ramped up before any discussion of reopening the economy could occur.

An inmate with serious health problems will be let out of federal custody after he went to court over fear of contracting COVID-19 behind bars — a move his lawyer hopes will open the door for other vulnerable prisoners.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today conversations are continuing on reconvening the House of Commons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The push to start measuring COVID-19 immunity through so-called serology tests is gaining steam. Several provinces are hinting at plans to roll out blood tests that could identify who has gained immunity against COVID-19, and pave the way for a return to some semblance of normal everyday life.

Canadian John Craig Lee was travelling on the Diamond Princess when the ship was quarantined in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, in early February. During the 14-day quarantine, Lee also tested positive for the virus. After 50 days of being away from home, he finally made it back to Canada.

A million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists are already being manufactured and will be available by September, even before trials prove whether the shot is effective, the team said on Friday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced $1.7 billion to clean up orphan wells in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as supports for rural employers and those working in the arts and culture sector.

Officials in B.C. released new statistical models Friday morning showing whether the province's approach has succeeded in bending the trajectory of COVID-19.

B.C. could ease some COVID-19 restrictions next month if active cases and hospitalizations continue to fall, based on new projections. 

Sharon Shorty and Derek Yap of Yukon planned to celebrate their 15th anniversary early last month by renewing their vows aboard a Caribbean cruise. Instead, it happened in the air.

China faces a drawn-out struggle to revive its economy after it suffered its biggest contraction since at least the 1970s after ordering hundreds of millions of people to stay home to fight the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian Forces members with medical training will be sent to Quebec after the province asked for help at long-term care homes struggling with growing COVID-19 outbreaks. Read more about what's happening in Canada, the U.S. and around the world.

Canada's oil and gas producers have asked the federal government to freeze the carbon tax and delay new climate change regulations while the industry weathers the storm of COVID-19.

Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star "dancing" around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted more than a century ago.

An international money-manufacturer is pitching in to help support Manitoba health-care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

It's been a week since Barbara Paquette died after contracting the coronavirus in Montreal's LaSalle Hospital long-term care home - and her family has been desperately trying to find out what happened to her body.

It's been a week since Barbara Paquette died after contracting the coronavirus in Montreal's LaSalle Hospital long-term care home — time her family spent desperately trying to find out what happened to her body.

WIth increasing evidence that Canada has succeeded in flattening the COVID-19 curve, the next challenge is when and how to begin easing Canada's physical distancing rules. Take it slow and steady, some experts suggest, adding that it might be possible to start the easing sooner than you think.

As emergency and intensive care doctors around the globe work frantically to save the lives of people gravely ill with COVID-19, one of the world's foremost critical care experts is warning against what he calls the misuse and overuse of mechanical ventilators.

"I know there are citizens here who are worried foreign workers will come here with the virus, but I think the foreign workers are even more worried they will get the virus here," says the owner of a strawberry patch in Île d'Orléans, near Quebec City.

The son of one of nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer's victims says lives in long-term care homes could have been saved during the COVID-19 pandemic, if Ontario had acted on recommendations from the public inquiry into the serial killer's crimes.

Fans around the world — and now two members of Congress — are demanding entertainment giant Live Nation refund tickets for all events cancelled or disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. But Live Nation says 90 per cent of its shows are simply being postponed for future dates that have yet to be set.

With most shelters full and operating at a lowered capacity to adhere to physical distancing rules, some cities including Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto, are putting up the homeless in hotels. But advocates say there are too few beds and not enough being done.

Oversight of infection control measures — key to keeping long-term care homes free of illness — plummeted when Ontario scaled back comprehensive annual inspections last year, a CBC News investigation has found.

Just days after saying he had total authority to reopen states, U.S. President Donald Trump sounded more deferential as he released a set of guidelines and said governors could "call their own shots." But with legal authority and public support already on their side, Trump's reversal changes little.

Just days after saying he had total authority to reopen states, U.S. President Donald Trump sounded more deferential as he released a set of guidelines and said governors could "call their own shots." But with legal authority and public support already on their side, Trump's reversal changes little.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to [email protected] and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

At least 50 per cent more people died in China's virus epicentre of Wuhan than previously counted, with state media on Friday attributing the initial undercount to how overwhelmed the health system was coping with thousands of sick patients.

Harrington Lake, the official summer residence where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent Easter with his wife and children, has been undergoing $8.6 million in renovations.

A second health-care worker has died in Ontario after contracting COVID-19, a long-term care organization said Thursday.

A section of Canada's workforce is being overlooked as the federal government expands subsidies for workers affected by COVID-19, a rights group says.

On Tuesday, Nunavut Senator, Dennis Patterson, N.W.T. Senator Margaret Dawn Anderson and Yukon Senator Pat Duncan issued a press release saying they had 'pushed in vain' to get Ottawa to change the program’s eligibility requirements before Bill C-14, A second Act respecting certain measures in response to COVID-19, was passed.

A tireless volunteer, a beloved teacher, and to many more simply “Babu Uncle” — members of Muslim communities in Toronto and Halifax are grieving the loss of Husain Bhayat, a man defined by his dedication to humanitarian causes and his kind, always-smiling eyes.

A tireless volunteer, a beloved teacher, and to many more simply “Babu Uncle” — members of Muslim communities in Toronto and Halifax are grieving the loss of Husain Bhayat, a man defined by his dedication to humanitarian causes and his kind, always-smiling eyes.

A tireless volunteer, a beloved teacher, and to many more simply “Babu Uncle” — members of Muslim communities in Toronto and Halifax are grieving the loss of Husain Bhayat, a man defined by his dedication to humanitarian causes and his kind, always-smiling eyes.