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• Quebec recommends booster only to vulnerable never infected with COVID-19

  Quebec is changing its vaccine strategy: public health officials are now recommending booster shots only for vulnerable people who have never had COVID-19.

  

• Number in hospital with COVID-19 in B.C. hits another new low in latest update

  The number of patients with COVID-19 in B.C. hospitals declined again this week, once again reaching a low not seen since before the province began including incidental hospitalizations in its count.

  

• Republican-led panel targets U.S. COVID relief dollars for review

  U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday began their promised aggressive oversight of the Biden administration, focusing on what watchdogs described as 'indications of widespread fraud' in federal coronavirus aid programs initiated under then-president Donald Trump.

  

• 'Legitimately flabbergasting': MP raises concerns over government's quarantine hotel spending

  Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner is raising concerns over the federal government's spending on so-called COVID-19 quarantine hotels, calling the total spent on a Calgary-area hotel in 2022 'legitimately flabbergasting.'

  

• WHO declares COVID-19 global emergency isn't over. What happens next?

  The World Health Organization decided Monday not to end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency it declared three years ago, even though the pandemic has reached what the international body calls an 'inflection point.'

• Feds caught off guard by Saskatchewan 'unforeseen' request for COVID-19 help

  Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces were caught off guard by a request for help from Saskatchewan during the height of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• WHO: COVID-19 still an emergency but nearing 'inflection' point

  The coronavirus remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Monday, after a key advisory panel found the pandemic may be nearing an 'inflection point' where higher levels of immunity can lower virus-related deaths.

• All countries 'dangerously unprepared' for future pandemics: report

  The world is 'dangerously unprepared' for future pandemics, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) say in a report published on Monday, calling on countries to update their preparedness plans by year-end.

• Russian embassy says North Korea lifted lockdown in capital

  Russia's embassy in North Korea says the country has eased stringent epidemic controls in capital Pyongyang that were placed during the past five days to slow the spread of respiratory illnesses.

• Health Canada sticks with Evusheld despite U.S. FDA dropping the COVID drug

  Health Canada says it will continue to recommend COVID-19 prevention drug, Evulsheld, despite U.S. FDA pulling back its emergency use authorization due to concerns around its efficacy against Omicron subvariant 'Kraken.'

• WHO decision on COVID-19 emergency won't affect Canada's response: Tam

  The World Health Organization will announce Monday whether it thinks COVID-19 still represents a global health emergency but Canada's top doctor says regardless of what the international body decides, Canada's response to the coronavirus will not change.

• Holiday trips within China surge after COVID-19 curbs lifted

  Lunar New Year holiday trips inside China surged 74 per cent from last year after authorities scrapped COVID-19 travel curbs, state media reported on Saturday, though the number of journeys was still only half of pre-pandemic levels.