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• U.S. proposes once-a-year COVID-19 shots for most Americans

  U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot, proposing a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most to get a once-a-year shot.

  

• Subcontracting ArriveCan development 'seems highly illogical and inefficient:' Trudeau

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Canada's top public servant to look into the government's procurement process over what he says seems a 'highly illogical and inefficient' contract to develop the ArriveCan app.

  

• 'Bizarre' fictional COVID-19 report, penned by Preston Manning, resurfaces on social media

  The man Alberta is paying $253,000 to find out what went right – and wrong – with the province's pandemic response has already come to his own conclusions in a report published online last spring.

  

• 'Ready, willing and able': COVID-19 vaccine policies at Ontario hospitals are keeping some health workers from filling dire staff shortages

  Despite Ontario no longer requiring health-care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, all of the province's 140 public hospitals continue to enforce a mandatory vaccination policy, leaving some experienced front-line workers in the dust as facilities face a staffing crisis.

  

• Noting transmissibility of 'Kraken' COVID-19 subvariant, officials again urge booster shots

  As the first pandemic-response guidelines of the year were released in Canada, public health officials warned its 'too early' to relax COVID-19 measures, noting the spread of the subvariant known as XBB.1.5, or Kraken.

• More answers needed on U.S. FDA's proposal for annual COVID shot: Bogoch

  There are still many unanswered questions involving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent proposal for an annual COVID-19 shot, infectious diseases specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch says.

• B.C. man approved for financial compensation for vaccine injury, others still waiting for help

  A B.C. man who suffered a rare COVID-19 vaccine injury that left him paralyzed will be getting financial support from the federal government.

• Bali welcomes back 1st flight from China as COVID rules ease

  A direct flight from China landed in Indonesia's resort island of Bali for the first time in nearly three years on Sunday after the route was suspended due to the pandemic.

• Japan to lower COVID-19 to flu status, further easing rules

  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19 to the equivalent of seasonal influenza in the spring, a move that would further relax mask wearing and other preventive measures as the country seeks to return to normalcy.

• Hybrid immunity is 'best protection' against COVID-19, study finds

  A study, published by the University of Calgary in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) has found anyone who has at least the full set of COVID-19 vaccinations and a prior infection has the best chance of prevention of future infection.

• Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to get $253K to chair Alberta COVID-19 panel

  Danielle Smith has appointed retired conservative politician Preston Manning to head a review of how Alberta handled the COVID-19 public health emergency, a job that will pay him $253,000.

• Hong Kong to scrap isolation rule for new COVID-19 cases by Jan. 30

  Hong Kong will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected with COVID-19 starting Jan. 30 as part of its strategy to return the semi-autonomous Chinese city to normalcy, the city's leader said Thursday. For most of the pandemic over the last three years, Hong Kong has aligned itself with mainland China's 'zero COVID' strategy, requiring those who test positive to undergo quarantine.