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  Yahoo News 360

  COVID emergency ending: Too soon or long overdue?

  For the past three years, the emergency declaration has given the government expanded powers to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

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  CBC

  Government data shows 8 deaths from COVID-19 and 14 hospitalizations in latest N.L. update

  Newfoundland and Labrador had 14 hospitalizations for COVID-19 from Jan. 15 to Jan. 28, according to new numbers released Wednesday by the provincial Health Department. Of the 14 hospitalizations from Jan. 15 to Jan. 28, two cases required critical care. The first two weeks of 2023 saw 25 hospitalizations, including three in critical care. The provincial government's COVID-19 data hub also says there were seven new deaths due to COVID-19 over the two weeks, but according to the hub's regional an

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  The Canadian Press

  Feds caught off guard by Saskatchewan 'unforeseen' request for COVID-19 help

  SASKATOON — Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces were caught off guard by a request for help from Saskatchewan during the height of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Documents obtained under freedom of information laws show employees in the federal departments were surprised when Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman sent a letter in October 2021 to then-federal health minister Patty Hajdu requesting help. “Unforeseen (request for assistance) for (Saskatchewan) came in

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  The Canadian Press

  How will life change once the COVID-19 emergency ends?

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed-up food assistance and universal access to coronavirus vaccines and tests. Much of that is now coming to an end, with President Joe Biden's administration saying it plans to end the emergency declarations on May 11. Here's a look at what will stay and what will go once the emergency order is lifted: COVID-19 TESTS, T

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  CBC

  8 more COVID-19 deaths in N.B., decrease in hospital admissions, 12 new cases of XBB.1.5

  New Brunswick is reporting eight more deaths from COVID-19, a decrease in hospital admissions because of the virus and a decrease in new lab-confirmed cases in Tuesday's weekly update. The proportion of cases identified as XBB, an offshoot of the Omicron BA.2 subvariant, has jumped to 10 per cent, as of the week ending Jan. 28, from three per cent the previous week. The COVIDWatch report does not indicate how many of them are the subvariant XBB.1.5, which the World Health Organization has descri

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  CBC

  Ottawa leaving January in better COVID-19 shape

  Recent developments: Ottawa's COVID-19 trends are dropping or stable. The EOHU still considers its COVID risk to be low. Eight more local residents who had COVID have died. The latest Ottawa Public Health (OPH) has said recent downward respiratory trends are encouraging. As of Tuesday's update, the capital's key COVID-19 trends are all lower at the end of January than the start and either stable or dropping. It has maintained that it's still worthwhile to reduce risks while COVID-19 levels are h

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  CBC

  Alberta shelves preventative COVID-19 therapy, Evusheld, as resistant variants take hold

  Alberta is no longer recommending Evusheld, a preventative COVID-19 therapy, because it does not work against the latest subvariants to take hold in the province. Evusheld has been offered to immunocompromised Albertans, including transplant patients and people undergoing some types of cancer treatment, since last May. On Thursday, U.S. Food and Drug Administration removed its authorization for Evusheld, saying it's unlikely to be effective against the newest strains, including XBB.1.5. "With th

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  The Canadian Press

  President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared. The move to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations would formally restructure the federal coronavirus response to treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health that can be managed through agencies' normal author

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  The Canadian Press

  WHO decided the COVID-19 global emergency isn't over. What happens next?

  OTTAWA — The World Health Organization decided Monday not to end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency it declared three years ago, even though the pandemic has reached what the international body calls an "inflection point." Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, said Monday "there is no doubt that we're in a far better situation now" than a year ago, when the highly transmissible Omicron variant was at its peak. But Tedros warned that in the last eight weeks, at

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• The Canadian Press

  Delaware Gov. John Carney tests positive for COVID-19

  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Delaware Gov. John Carney has tested positive for COVID-19, the governor's office announced on Saturday. Carney tested positive late Friday using an at-home antigen test after experiencing mild symptoms, according to a news release. Carney, 66, said he's “feeling fine” and is isolating himself — following U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines — and will work from home. This marks Carney's second publicly announced bout with coronavirus in the past sev

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