The City of Hamilton and provincial Ministry of Health are utilizing mobile clinics to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to areas of the city with lower vaccination coverage rates — including rural Flamborough.
OTTAWA—It took three cabinet ministers and a late-day news conference on the eve of an expected election to announce that maybe by early fall Canada will introduce its version of an international vaccine passport to allow Canadians to prove their vaccination status when they travel abroad.
Pressure is growing on the Ontario government to follow in Quebec’s footsteps with a vaccine certificate program that would ban unvaccinated people from restaurants, bars and gyms.
Premier Doug Ford has rejected a demand he meet with opposition parties pushing vaccine passports and mandatory vaccinations for health and education workers as cases of COVID-19 doubled in the last two weeks.
Premier Doug Ford’s government argues that the family tied to the alleged theft of $11 million in pandemic aid is using “fraudulently obtained funds” to pay for their legal defence.
Both Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) are warning shoppers about multiple curry products that are being recalled due to serious allergy concerns.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
With Ontario seeing more than three straight weeks of growth in daily COVID-19 cases — primarily in people who have not been vaccinated — the province is “most definitely” in a fourth wave, says a top doctor with the government’s science advisory table.
Toronto is in the early days of a fourth wave of COVID-19 certain to worsen this autumn, experts say after an almost fivefold jump in daily new infections over one month.