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A small, specialised unit throughout the Canadian military’s intelligence department started producing detailed warnings and evaluation about the emergence of the lethal novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China in early January, CBC News has discovered. The medical intelligence (MEDINT) cell inside Canadian Forces Intelligence Command is tucked away on the perimeters of …

OPEC, Russia and different allies outlined plans on Thursday to cut their oil output by greater than a fifth and mentioned they anticipated different producers to be part of in their effort to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus disaster. But the group, generally known as OPEC+, mentioned a …

Briefing notes ready by bureaucrats for federal ministers present simply how rapidly the COVID-19 scenario developed in Canada — with public well being officers stating the chance of transmission in Canada was low proper up till early March, solely to advocate an ordered shutdown of financial life on this nation some two …

Now that the COVID-19 menace is upon us, scientists and innovators are pulling out the stops to seek out methods of coping. That rush of invention isn’t any shock to historians — not simply of science, however economics, too. In the 1620s, dwelling by way of the plague impressed economist and polymath William …

Many hospitals throughout the nation are being compelled to hold valuable provides of protective masks, gloves and sanitizer underneath lock and key, in half due to worry of theft, CBC News has realized. Health officers in Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan verify they’ve seen important supplies disappear from retailer …

B.C.’s provincial well being officer says she has no plans to create projections of how many individuals would possibly die of COVID-19, calling the eventual death toll an unpredictable quantity. Dr. Bonnie Henry’s feedback on Thursday got here after federal well being officers launched fashions suggesting between 11,000 and 22,000 …

Sylvie Morin has labored as a nurse in long-term care houses in Quebec for 27 years, however nothing ready her for the ravages of this pandemic. “The patients that die, they die so fast. I’ve never seen it in my profession,” stated Morin, the assistant head nurse at Laval’s CHSLD de Sainte-Dorothée …

Researchers on the University of Saskatchewan say they successfully decontaminated a small batch of N95 respiratory masks for reuse final week. The aim of the method is to create an emergency backup provide of N95 masks, in partnership with the province, for hospitals to make use of throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and within the …

Speaking to the nation for the 25th consecutive morning at present, Justin Trudeau formally launched Canadians to the “new normal” — a protracted interval of uncertainty, financial sacrifices and restrictions meant to a minimum of restrict the toll of a illness that may nonetheless kill hundreds. Though we entered this …

Closing the border and telling the general public to self-isolate at residence in the early days of Canada’s COVID-19 outbreak would have completed extra hurt than good, in accordance with a nationwide public well being group. Ian Culbert, government director of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), informed a digital …