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    Health Canada warned Canadians about risks of using fraudulent and unauthorized N95 masks in a news release. N95 masks are in high demand during the pandemic as part of a set of personal protective e

Boyd, Alex, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 3 Nov 2020     The elderly, the high risk, health-care and essential workers should be first in line when an initial COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, says a national advisory body tasked with giving immunization

Keung, Nicholas, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 30 Sep 2020     Health Canada gave the green light to a rapid test for coronavirus, but experts say people shouldn't expect the testing backlog - and lineups - will disappear anytime soon.

Boyd, Alex, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 27 Nov 2020     The newspaper received questions about the future COVID-19 vaccine and its safety and approached an expert at Health Canada to answer those questions.

Torstar Media, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 8 Jun 2020     Health Canada recalled some hand sanitizers because they contained industrial-strength ethanol.

MacCharles, Tonda, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 5 Aug 2020     The Canadian government has signed two deals to purchase “millions of doses” of promising vaccine candidates against COVID-19 but did not say how much it cost or how many doses it bought, citing ongo

Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 17 Feb 2021     Verify Diagnostics announced on Tuesday that Health Canada has authorized the Assure Tech EcotestCOVID-19 serological rapid test to be used at the point-of-care(POC) for the purpose of screening for

MacCharles, Tonda, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 16 Dec 2020     Canada's global scramble in spring 2020 to buy personal protective equipment for front-line health workers taught the federal Liberal government a painful lesson - that they had to get a jump on buyi

MacCharles, Tonda, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 7 Dec 2020     Hundreds of thousands of doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech arrived in Canada the week of December 13 - 19, 2020, allowing a national vaccination campaign to begin earlier th

Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 6 Aug 2020     Health Canada is recalled more than 50 hand sanitizers that contain ingredients "not acceptable for use" that may pose health risks.

Gallant, Jacques, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 15 Dec 2020     Canada received its second COVID-19 vaccine by the end of December after Health Canada approval.

Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 20210423     The Ontario government has confirmed the first case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) in a patient after receiving the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine.

Benns, Roderick, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 10 Dec 2020     Local entrepreneur Bryant received authorization from Health Canada to sell his easy-to-use COVID-19 at-home test. The Anosmic COVID-19 Smell Tester is the first authorized product that can screen pe

kawarthaNOW, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 23 Sep 2020     click the image for the link to the article