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At-risk Canadians should get additional COVID-19 bivalent booster this spring: NACI

At-risk Canadians should get additional COVID-19 bivalent booster this spring: NACI

Canadians at risk of severe illness due to COVID-19 are being advised to get an additional booster dose this spring.

Italy closes investigation alleging COVID lockdown failures

MILAN (AP) — Italian prosecutors have closed a COVID-19 investigation that accuses officials, including a former premier and a regional governor, of wrongdoing for failing to extend a lockdown zone in the early days of the pandemic to the northern ci
Biden pushes for $1.6B funding for pandemic fraud measures

Biden pushes for $1.6B funding for pandemic fraud measures

President Joe Biden's administration is asking Congress to approve more than $1.6 billion to help clean up the mess of fraud against the massive government coronavirus pandemic relief programs .
UK health chief's leaked messages revive raw pandemic debate

UK health chief's leaked messages revive raw pandemic debate

LONDON (AP) — Coronavirus lockdowns have been lifted and face masks are few and far between in Britain these days.
Ottawa ends shipments of rapid COVID-19 tests as millions set to expire

Ottawa ends shipments of rapid COVID-19 tests as millions set to expire

The federal government has stopped shipping rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to provinces as millions are set to expire within the year, and experts say the once-essential tool has lost its importance in the pandemic.
Company planning to make COVID-19 vaccine in Canada could go out of business

Company planning to make COVID-19 vaccine in Canada could go out of business

MONTREAL — An American company that signed a deal with the federal government to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Montreal has warned investors it could go out of business within the year.
EMS workers punished for media interviews in NYC settle suit

EMS workers punished for media interviews in NYC settle suit

NEW YORK (AP) — Four New York City ambulance workers who said they were disciplined for speaking to the media during the harrowing, early months of the COVID-19 pandemic have reached a settlement in their free speech lawsuit against the fire departme

Man gets 6 years for $4.2M COVID relief fraud scheme

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida man was sentenced Wednesday to six years and two months in federal prison for trying to obtain more than $4.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds by filing false loan applications.
COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins

COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins

WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19's origins remain hazy . Three years after the start of the pandemic, it's still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from an animal.
New Brunswick seafood foreign workers faced awful conditions during COVID-19: study

New Brunswick seafood foreign workers faced awful conditions during COVID-19: study

FREDERICTON — A study by Dalhousie University says temporary foreign workers in New Brunswick's seafood industry during the COVID-19 pandemic suffered gruelling and sometimes dangerous conditions.
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