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• Vaccine uptake higher among people who knew someone who died of COVID-19: U.S. survey

  A U.S. survey found that people who had a personal connection to someone who became ill or died of COVID-19 were more likely to have received at least one shot of the vaccine compared to those who didn’t have any loved ones who had been impacted by the disease.

  

• Masking alone wouldn't have eased respiratory virus surge in the fall: PHO document

  Introducing a mask mandate when respiratory viruses surged in the fall may not have eased the crush on pediatric hospitals, a Public Health Ontario science brief obtained by The Canadian Press concludes.

  

• U.S. House plans vote to end foreign air traveller COVID vaccine mandate

  The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on a bill that would end a requirement that most foreign air travellers be vaccinated against COVID-19, Majority Leader Steve Scalise said on Friday.

  

• China's CanSino confident its mRNA COVID vaccine as good as Moderna, Pfizer shots

  CanSino Biologics Chief Executive Yu Xuefeng said on Friday he was confident his company's experimental COVID-19 vaccine using messenger RNA technology was as good as shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.

  

• Canadian COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Medicago Inc. shutting down

  Medicago Inc., the Quebec-based drug manufacturer of a Canadian COVID-19 vaccine and other plant-based drugs, is being shut down by parent company Mitsubishi Chemical Group.

• White-tailed deer harbouring COVID-19 variants thought to be nearly extinct in humans: study

  White-tailed deer may be a reservoir for COVID-19 variants of concern including Alpha, Delta and Gamma, according to new research out of Cornell University that raises questions about whether deer could re-introduce nearly extinct variants back into the human population.

• China, Hong Kong scrap cross-border travel quota, COVID test

  Authorities announced Friday that travel between Hong Kong and China will no longer require COVID-19 PCR tests nor be held to a daily limit, as both places seek to drive economic growth.

• COVID-19 tests will be mandatory for travellers from China for another two months

  People arriving on flights to Canada from China, Hong Kong and Macao will have to do a COVID-19 test before they board for another two months, after Canada announced it would renew border restrictions on air travel from those areas Thursday.

• 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.'