Biochemist Daniela Beatriz Ori manipulates swab samples to make a real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis for COVID-19 testing at the biochemistry lab of Central Navy Hospital Dr. Pedro Malloon April 28, 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Amilcar Orfali/Getty Images)
Heavy snow falls as people wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 cross a road in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday, December 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
People walk past a "we're open, heated terrace dining" sign at Eli's Essentials on the Upper East Side on February 02, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Elementary-school students in Greater Montreal will have to wear a medical mask in class after spring break, The Canadian Press has learned from a reliable source. All other red zones will follow.
Starting Monday, international travellers coming to Canada will have to quarantine in a hotel for three days at their own expense while they wait for the results of a COVID-19 test.
Nearly a year after COVID-19 was first detected in Canada, CTVNews.ca asked Canadians how the pandemic has changed their lives. In their candid and heartfelt responses, we learn how some are coping with isolation, loss, heartbreak and new beginnings.
Quebec recently took more than a month to spot two cases of a COVID-19 variant in Abitibi, so what hope does it have of sequencing the DNA of thousands of cases per week? Lots, it turns out, with scientists at McGill and Genome Quebec lending their labs.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will extend the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy and the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy until June of this year as the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.
March is fraud prevention month and on CTVNews.ca, financial commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid highlights the 5 most popular scams Canadians are falling victim to during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal government announced it will extend the Canada Recovery Benefit eligibility period by an additional 12 weeks, as some recipients face a cut-off by end of March.
Canadians will soon be filing their 2020 taxes, an unprecedented tax year that experts say will have several moving parts to consider, such as loss of income and government financial aid.
A young man and the dog he was walking were killed late Wednesday evening in eastern Montreal when they were struck by a train convoy. Locals say they have safety concerns about the crossing.
Montreal police officers did four checkups this winter on an isolated 65-year-old, at the request of a family member, before entering her home and finding her body almost a month later. Quebec's police watchdog is now investigating.
On March 4, 50 years ago, southern Quebec got hammered by what would become known as the storm of century, with Montreal and the surrounding paralyzed for days.
Some of the latest changes to Quebec’s restrictions are big news to a lot of young people. Starting March 15th, school sports will be allowed. But other youth leagues say their seasons may be unsalvageable.
After decreasing on Wednesday, hospitalizations rose with eight more people in care on Thursday, for a total of 626. Of those, 115 people are in intensive care, a decrease of five.
Three new projects are aiming to determine how many teachers and school staff in Canada have had COVID-19, to help inform prevention strategies in neighbourhoods, schools and daycares.
With a federal budget in the offing, premiers are stepping up the pressure on Ottawa to immediately boost health-care funding by at least $28 billion a year.
All of Quebec will move after spring break to orange-zone rules, Premier François Legault announced Wednesday, with a few big exceptions: Montreal and several large surrounding regions.
In a dataset released Thursday morning, Statistics Canada reported that 84 per cent of COVID-19 cases across the country are caused by community exposures.
Thousands of New Zealanders on the east coast of the country's North Island evacuated to higher ground on Friday, and its biggest city was put on alert after three offshore earthquakes in less than eight hours triggered tsunami sirens and warnings.
A former assistant professor and researcher at McMaster University leaked an embargoed report of potential COVID-19 treatments to the Trump administration, suggesting that it lent support to the use of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, according to the British Medical Journal.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may latch more easily onto the respiratory cells of those with type A blood than any other blood group, according to a new study.
