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On January 30, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) declared the International Public Health Emergency on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, which is caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS- CoV- 2).¹ This

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many countries to close their borders to travellers, in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. Given the initially indiscriminate travel restrictions adopted in March 2020, many seafarers have been stranded on

On Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, full vaccination for everyone born in 2009 or earlier (12+) and presentation of your BC Vaccine Card will be required to access certain events, services and businesses.

The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths has continued to decline globally, with  3.1 million new cases and just over 54,000 new deaths, reported over the last week, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The number of new COVID-19 cases reported to the UN health agency has declined for seven weeks in a row, in what the top official there called on Monday “the longest sequence of weekly declines during the pandemic so far”.

COVID-19 infections have increased for the ninth consecutive week globally while variants continue their spread, the UN health agency has confirmed.

Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world - have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whose 2020 outbreak was characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Restriction measures changed healthcare delivery, with telehealth providing