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First COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Donor
Canadian Blood Services begins collecting plasma donations from people who have recovered from COVID-19 as part of Canada's CONCOR TrialCanadian Blood Services is proud to be part of CONCOR, a nationa...
Apr 30, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 10:45 a.m. Ontario is reporting 459 new COVID-19 cases today, and 86 more deaths - the largest daily death toll ...
Apr 30, 2020
Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
TOKYO - North Korea's collapse has been predicted - wrongly- for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or ...
Apr 30, 2020
About 50 bodies found in trucks outside NY funeral home
NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...
Apr 30, 2020
UK admits it could miss 100,000 daily virus tests target
LONDON - The British government has acknowledged that it may miss its self-imposed goal of conducting 100,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of Thursday. But officials insisted that the U.K. i...
Apr 30, 2020
Fauci warns states against 'tempting' a coronavirus rebound
WASHINGTON - The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of the coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to roll back restrictions. States need to proceed carefully as t...
Apr 30, 2020
US jobless claims soar past 30 million; Europe reeling also
NEW YORK - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits because of the coronavirus has soared past 30 million, worsening a crisis unmatched since the 1930s and turning up the pressure on p...
Apr 30, 2020
CFL Draft and a plan to save the 2020 season
In previous years the CFL draft would be something that would be interesting to follow, especially here in football appreciative western Canada. As a result of increase coverage of the NFL draft and t...
Apr 30, 2020
Montreal hospital to test disinfection robot that uses ultraviolet rays
MONTREAL - The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre says it will soon conduct the first Canadian test of a robot that uses ultraviolet light to disinfect. The Montreal instit...
Apr 30, 2020
This is his quest: An actor serenades the front-line workers
NEW YORK - It's a stunning sound, emerging amid the clanging and the whooping and the banging and the honking at 7 p.m. each night as New Yorkers cheer front-line workers: the velvety, buttery bariton...
Apr 30, 2020