Covid 19

Canada Approves Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine, Orders 20 Mn Doses

February 27, 2021 03:34 AM AEDT | By Ipsita Sarkar

Source: solarseven, Shutterstock Summary Canada will start receiving AstraZeneca drugs from April, to be produced at US plants. Canada has orde...

Canada’s Largest Shipment of Pfizer & Moderna COVID Shots This Week

February 24, 2021 01:48 AM AEDT | By Shreya Biswas

Source: Shutterstock Summary Canada is set to receive a record number of shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna this week. This spike in the de...

Supply Chain Snarls Canada’s COVID Inoculation Campaign

February 11, 2021 12:38 AM AEDT | By Kunal Sawhney

  On Monday, December 14, 2020, support worker Anita Quidangen was one of the first Ontarions to be administered the first vial of Pfizer-BioNTe...

Canada Approves 6 Doses from Each Pfizer-BioNTech Vial as Cases Rise

February 10, 2021 09:07 PM AEDT | By Ipsita Sarkar

Summary Only 3% of the population have received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines so far. Fines to be hiked up to C$3000 against those crossing bord...

Canada’s Employment Falls Drastically In Jan 2021 Amid COVID Lockdow...

February 06, 2021 03:35 AM AEDT | By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Canada’s unemployment levels shot up by 0.6 percentage points to 9.4 per cent in January, the highest surge since August in 2020. As...

Novavax Agrees To Make COVID Shots In Canada, But It Will Take A Whi...

February 04, 2021 12:01 AM AEDT | By Kunal Sawhney

Stepping up Canada’s efforts to produce COVID-19 vaccines at home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, February 2, that US drugm...

Canada’s Precision Gets C$25Mn Funding To Boost COVID Shot Productio...

February 03, 2021 08:50 PM AEDT | By Team Kalkine Media

Summary The Canadian government has invested about C$ 25.1 million in genetics medicine technology provider Precision Nanosystems Inc. The company...

Canada May Soon Make COVID Shots, Pfizer Predicts US$15B Vaccine Sal...

February 03, 2021 03:33 AM AEDT | By Team Kalkine Media

Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine progress is likely to jump up a level as reports expect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce details regarding a...

Canada Mulls Travel Ban, Strict Restrictions As New COVID Cases Rise

January 27, 2021 09:43 PM AEDT | By Hina Chowdhary

Summary Canada may renew travel ban, restrictions after spike in new cases. Opposition has blamed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-led government for...

Providence Therapeutics: Canada’s 1st COVID Shot Heads For Trial

January 27, 2021 08:22 PM AEDT | By Kunal Sawhney

Summary Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc announced on Tuesday that it has begun clinical trials for the first made-in-Canada vaccine against th...

Novavax (NVAX) Stocks Up As Canada Agrees To Buy 76-Mn Vaccine Shots

January 25, 2021 08:42 PM AEDT | By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Novavax has received an advance order from Canada for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate NVX-Cov2373. Its stocks climbed nearly 4 per cent on t...

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Shot May Be Powerful Enough To Beat UK Variant

January 22, 2021 12:54 AM AEDT | By Hina Chowdhary

Summary Results of a new study show that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine may have the capability to neutralize the new mutant coronavirus vari...

Despite COVID, Canada Saw Decreased Business Insolvencies In 2020: S...

January 20, 2021 02:47 AM AEDT | By Kunal Sawhney

In spite of the strong economic headwinds triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, business insolvencies declined by nearly a third, or 29.4 per cent, year...

1 Million Vaccine Doses Per Week In Canada From April

January 15, 2021 11:37 PM AEDT | By Kunal Sawhney

Canada is expected to receive up to one million COVID-19 immunization doses per week from various drug makers from April 2021 onwards, announced Major...

Medicago’s Plant-based Vaccine Candidate: Canada’s Own COVID Shot?

January 12, 2021 11:24 PM AEDT | By Hina Chowdhary

While Canada is purchasing big batches of coronavirus shots from foreign pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Moderna, etc., there is a COVID-19 v...

Trudeau Govt To Make COVID Test Mandatory For Canada-Bound Flyers

December 31, 2020 08:08 PM AEDT | By Kunal Sawhney

Summary The federal government plans to make it a requirement that air passengers pass a COVID-19 PCR test three days before they arrive in Canada....