Routine vaccine clinics within schools have been paused during the pandemic. ...
Category: Health and COVID-19
Ontario planning to allow resumption of non-urgent surgeries ‘in the coming days’
The health minister also said Ontario has "no plans currently to drop the passport vaccination situation or masking." ...
Free rapid antigen tests at pharmacies and grocery stores: Elliott
The government will distribute 5.5 million tests a week for the next eight weeks. ...
Cancer screening volumes saw rebound last year, but ‘significant backlog’ remains a concern: doc
Ontario Health data shows more than 880,000 additional screening tests were done last year compared to 2020. ...
Ford government digs in on Bill 124 in meetings with nurse unions
Unions want nurses' pay improved but find no budging from Ford and Elliott amid a string of meetings. ...
Ontario-made COVID remedy in storage, as Merck, regulator at odds
Health Canada and Merck are pointing fingers at each over delayed approval of the company's COVID drug. ...
Ontario on its way out of Omicron: Dr. Moore
Dr. Moore, in his first press briefing since restrictions began to lift, says it's time to start thinking about a post-COVID world. ...
PCs promising transferable benefits — but not before election
Opposition parties torched the government's announcement as a nothingburger and as being "cynical." ...
‘These are preventable losses of life,’ researchers say of migrant farm workers’ deaths
The researchers reviewed coroner's files on the deaths of nine migrant workers in Ontario over the past two years. ...
Ontario launches long-term care website
Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra also addressed staffing shortage concerns and criticism over his appointment. ...