Canada's chief public health officer says there has been a social, cultural shift around the wearing of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. After first suggesting wearing a mask, Dr. Theresa Tam is now recommending covering your face when maintaining physical distance might not be possible. She says thinking it of as protecting each other from being exposed to the virus is a key concept for Canadians. Dr. Tam is again stressing that for summer, outside activities are better than inside and keeping a physical distance and hand washing will continue to be key.

The City of Surrey has announced Surrey Canada Day will be hosted virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic and consideration for public health and safety. Virtual Surrey Canada Day will take place on July 1 and will be broadcasted on Facebook and YouTube Live. Hosted by four-time Olympic gold medalist, Hayley Wickenheiser, this year’s free family-friendly virtual event will feature a series of segments including, musical entertainment, virtual tours, indigenous and cultural acts, a “Family Hour” for kids and seniors, dance lessons, a rodeo tribute, and a virtual firework finale to end the

Celestica Inc. has been contracted to build 7,500 ventilators in Newmarket, Ont., for a Canadian medical device company working on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.Financial terms of its contract with StarFish Medical Inc. weren't announced.Celestica says it intends to deliver the medical devices for treating patients with breathing problems to Health Canada in the fourth quarter of 2020.Celestica is a Toronto-based company with a global business that manufactures equipment for a variety of industries including health care, aerospace and information technology.Starfish is one of several

Large companies that receive bridge financing through a new federal loan program will have to give the government the option to take an ownership stake, or provide a cash equivalent.Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the terms will be the same for any company asking for help through the program that opens for applications today.He says the terms are designed to make sure companies using the program receive bridge loans, not bailouts, to get through COVID-19's economic disruptions.The Liberals have said the loans would be on commercial terms, and require companies to have already gone to banks

There are 79,112 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. Quebec: 44,197 confirmed (including 3,647 deaths, 12,497 resolved) Ontario: 23,384 confirmed (including 1,919 deaths, 17,898 resolved) Alberta: 6,716 confirmed (including 128 deaths, 5,584 resolved) British Columbia: 2,446 confirmed (including 146 deaths, 1,975 resolved) Nova Scotia: 1,044 confirmed (including 56 deaths, 95 resolved) Saskatchewan: 599 confirmed (including 6 deaths, 470 resolved) Manitoba: 279 confirmed (including 7 deaths, 257 resolved), 11 presumptive Newfoundland and Labrador: 260 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 250

Mumbai on Tuesday reported 1,411 new COVID-19 positive cases and 43 deaths, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. Now, the tally of total COVID-19 positive cases and fatalities due to the disease stand at 22,563 and 800, respectively. Meanwhile, nine more Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) employees have been detected positive for the disease, taking the total number of infected people in the organisation to 137. As per the Union Health Ministry, Maharashtra has so far confirmed 35,058 positive cases, including 1249 deaths. Hundred and ninety-three COVID-19 positive ca

Provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry is reporting only two new cases of COVID-19 as B.C. marks a milestone in the pandemic response. Henry says the province now has 2,446 cases in total but has also seen three additional deaths, bringing that total to 146. She's assuring people the province would not be allowing many businesses to begin re-opening today if officials did not think they could do so safely. But Henry is again urging owners to take the time needed to safely re-open.

An actor in the film ``Twilight'' and his girlfriend were found dead last week in a Las Vegas condominium, authorities said Tuesday. Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said foul play was not suspected in the May 13 deaths of Gregory Tyree Boyce, 30, and Natalie Adenike Adepoju, 27. The coroner said their causes and manners of death won't be known until medical examiners receive toxicology test results in several weeks. The bodies were found after police were summoned to a report of a dead body in a residential complex several miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, police said. Las Vegas Police O

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the re-opening of Canada amid the COVID-19 pandemic needs to be cautious and responsible, and that goes for the resumption of the House of Commons too. Opposition leader Andrew Scheer has repeatedly called for a return to in-person sittings, saying the existing thrice-weekly meetings of a special COVID-19 committee aren't enough to properly scrutinize the government's handling of the pandemic. Trudeau says the two virtual sittings combined with a single, reduced in-person sitting have been very effective in allowing MPs from across the country to participate