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More than a month after Alberta children under five became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, uptake is slower than expected, and some experts are urging parents to consider the shot as fall approaches. According to provincial data, 4.6 per cent of kids between the ages of six months and four …

Two weeks ago, Melanie Paradis got a call from her son’s Belleville, Ont., daycare that there was a case of hand-foot-and-mouth disease — an illness she had never heard of but one that would have her son in agony for days. Three days later, her one-year-old son Everett “was just crying inconsolably.” “It’s not life-threatening but …

The Conservative Party of Canada has released a preliminary list of members eligible to vote in the party’s September leadership race showing there are now more than twice the number of eligible voters than were in the 2020 contest that crowned Erin O’Toole as leader.  The preliminary numbers released Thursday indicate …

AP Photo/ Hau Dinh HANOI: Vietnam put its entire southern region in a two-week lockdown starting midnight Sunday, as confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the third day in a row. The lockdown order includes the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City metropolis, the country’s financial and economic hub …

Raipur: Bogged by the Covid-19 second wave, a complete lockdown has been imposed in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur from April 9 to April 19. As per the announcement made by administration, the lockdown restrictions will begin in the city from 6 pm onward on April 9.  The decision to impose complete …