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A hospital in Halifax is postponing some non-urgent surgeries because staff members are isolating after being exposed to COVID-19.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said that requirement will return as of Tuesday, which is only about a month since Canada waived the need for a test for those taking short cross-border trips.

This week, almost every Canadian province and territory made updates to its plans to deal with COVID-19 and the latest variant—find your province's latest news here.

Doctors who trained in Newfoundland and Labrador are like high school graduates waiting by the phone for someone to ask them to the prom.

Distancing must be maintained at all times in businesses, retail stores, gyms, salons and in spas, while in restaurants, a two-metre distance must be kept between tables.

Virginia Tech engineering professor Linsey Marr, who studies viruses in the air, says respirators offer far more protection than a surgical mask, both to the wearer and others around them.

The U.K.’s chief medical officers provided reasoning behind their decision to forgo the usual post-vaccine waiting time in order to speed up the delivery of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses as omicron spreads.