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THE GLOBE AND MAIL | Canada’s immunity task force takes aim at pressing COVID-19 questions

Published: 4 May 2020

After one week on the job, members of the federal government’s new immunity task force say they are coming to grips with a towering wall of uncertainty that obscures the true extent of COVID-19 in...

CBC | Health expert warns reopening provincial economies will be 'tricky'

Published: 4 May 2020

Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment — because so little is known about how many people are immune to...

THE GLOBE AND MAIL | All eyes are on Quebec’s move to reopen schools as COVID-19 worries persist

Published: 4 May 2020

The province may push back the dates of schools reopening, especially in Montreal, if the spread of the virus does not slow down, said Ciriaco Piccirillo, a professor in the department of...

FORTUNE | Coronavirus is making clear there is no solidarity in the EU

Published: 4 May 2020

« The European Union is in trouble. From the start, its countries haven’t been on equal footing. But COVID-19 has shone a stark light on the dissimilarities between its national economies. The...

New partnership to unravel genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Quebec

Published: 28 April 2020

The Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) and the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Genome Centre today announced they will partner to sequence the viral genomes of Quebec patients with COVID-19 disease. The...

COVID 19 treatments and vaccines: the importance of rigorous science

Published: 23 April 2020

Ethicists from Carnegie Mellon and ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ universities are calling on the global research community to resist treating the urgency of the current COVID-19 outbreak as grounds for making exceptions...

Canada launches serological testing initiative to help manage COVID-19

Published: 23 April 2020

The Government of Canada is launching a task force to measure the scope of coronavirus infection in Canada and rapidly provide information needed to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and safely get...

ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Genome Centre to share in $20M funding for COVID-related DNA research

Published: 23 April 2020

The ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Genome Centre today announced it has received funding from the Canadian government to sequence the genomes of people affected by COVID-19. The Federal Government is committing $40...

Canada launches serological testing initiative to help manage COVID-19

23 Apr 2020

The Government of Canada is launching a task force to measure the scope of coronavirus infection in Canada and rapidly provide information needed to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and safely get...

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