LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” pulled in $23.2 million over the weekend at box offices in China, a slow start for the big-budget epic about a Chinese folk hero in its most important theatrical market.
A married couple in North Carolina died moments apart from the coronavirus while holding hands.
Johnny Lee Peoples, 67, and his wife, Cathy Darlene Peoples, 65, succumbed to the virus following a month-long battle, People reports.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government began preparing for a possible pandemic as soon as it received the first alert about a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in China on New Year’s Eve.
U.S. hospitals have turned down about a third of their allocated supplies of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir since July as need for the costly antiviral wanes, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed on Friday.
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
The federal government will pay $13.9 million to open a voluntary self-isolation site in Toronto.
Announced Friday by federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu, the facility will house up to 140 COVID-19 positive people who can’t otherwise self-isolate.
The number of new COVID-19 cases topped 200 Friday including 71 in Toronto.
In what is becoming a concerning new trend in infections, Ontario is now routinely seeing the number of daily COVID-19 cases rise above 100.
MONTREAL — Mike Charlebois describes karaoke as a way of life, a form of expression and a little bit of escapist fun — something he says is more important than ever as the world grapples with a health crisis.