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• Canada facing critical shortage of O+ and O- blood supply: Canadian Blood Services

  The Canadian Blood Services says it only has three days' worth of O+ and O- blood types, along with only five days’ worth of A+, A- and B- blood types as of Friday.

  

• Experts concerned about possible further spread of monkeypox in Canada as U.S., WHO declare emergencies

  Monkeypox infections continue to rise in Canada as the U.S. and the WHO declare the outbreak an emergency, leaving some experts concerned about the risk of further outbreaks.

  

• Ottawa's Montfort Hospital temporarily closing emergency department overnights this weekend

  The Montfort Hospital in Ottawa's east end says it was forced to make the "difficult decision" to temporarily partially close its emergency department Saturday and Sunday between 7:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m.

  

• Mother of comatose U.K. boy says hospital to end care soon

  The family of a 12-year-old boy who has been in a coma for four months expects a London hospital to begin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment Saturday after his parents exhausted their legal options in a battle over his care.

  

• Fake COVID rapid test kits were sold in Ontario, Health Canada says

  Health Canada is warning the public about counterfeit rapid antigen test kits after several were sold in Ontario.

• Long COVID symptoms persist in as many as 1 in 8 adult patients: study

  A new Dutch study has found as many as one in eight adults exposed to COVID-19 will develop long-term symptoms.

• U.K.: 'Early signs' that monkeypox outbreak may be peaking

  British health authorities said Friday the monkeypox outbreak across the country may be peaking and that the epidemic's growth rate has slowed.

• U.K. court bars parents from moving comatose boy to hospice

  A British court has rejected a request from the parents of a comatose boy to allow them to move their son to a hospice when hospital doctors withdraw his life-support treatment.

• 'Extremely dire': Nurse union VP says staffing in B.C. hospitals is worst she's ever seen

  The vice-president of B.C.'s nurses union says the staffing shortages and wait times in hospitals across the province are the worst she's ever seen.

• Spain leads Europe in monkeypox, struggles to check spread

  With a steadily increasing count of monkeypox infections, Spain is home to the highest rate in Europe since the disease spread beyond Africa where it has been endemic for years.

• Biden administration declares the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

  The Biden administration on Thursday declared monkeypox a public health emergency, with cases on the rise across the U.S.

• Major immigration backlog in Canada leaving thousands of trained health-care professionals on the sidelines

  As hospitals across the country struggle under the weight of major staffing shortages, an immigration backlog described by lawyers as the worst they have ever seen is leaving qualified health professionals sitting on the sidelines.