Sources: Global News
Canada ends a travel ban on many African nations, including Nigeria and South Africa. 2021-12-17
Canada, the EU, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S. ban flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, and Eswatini due to the Omicron variant. 2021-11-26
Health Canada grants full approval for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, making Canada the first country to fully approve the single-dose vaccine. 2021-11-24
Canadian federal government announces a nationwide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for rail and train passengers and will place unvaccinated core federal employees under unpaid leave as early as November 15 if they had not disclose their vaccination status by October 29. 2021-10-6
Canada announces that it will purchase two million doses of the vaccine produced by Moderna. 2021-05-27
Canada receives its first shipment of vaccine doses from the COVAX initiative. 2021-04-8
British Columbia reports Canada's first case of the Nigerian variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a young person from the Interior Health region who is currently self-isolating. 2021-02-12
Canada reports a record of 9,197 new cases in the past 24 hours. 2021-01-8
Maryland-based vaccine development company Novavax signs a deal with Canada to supply up to 76 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. 2020-08-31