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TORONTO -- Health officials in Ontario have confirmed a new case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Toronto. On Feb. 24, a woman in her 60s presented herself to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre's emergency department with a travel history to...

MONCTON -- Paramedics across New Brunswick will soon be teaming up with nurses to provide joint palliative care to patients in the province. "What we're doing is adding paramedics into that circle of care, so that paramedics will now be...

ImageThe entrance to Camp Walker, a U.S. Army base in Daegu, South Korea, on Thursday. A U.S. soldier found to be infected with the coronavirus had visited the base on Monday.Credit...Kim Hyun-Tae/Yonhap, via Associated PressU.S. military reports its first coronavirus...

DAEGU, South Korea — The usually crowded shopping and partying district in this city of 2.4 million is quieter these days after officials urged citizens to stay home to contain an explosive outbreak of the coronavirus. But many restaurants and...

But here’s the thing: covid-19 may be novel, but you really don’t need to buy anything new or special to brace for it. In fact, The Washington Post spoke to epidemiology experts and they said the most important aspect of...

SEOUL, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF -- Scientists raced to find a treatment, crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, and quarantines were enforced Wednesday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to an uninhabited island in the Pacific as the world...

BERLIN — Germany’s highest court on Wednesday overturned a ban on medically assisted suicide, adding to a long-simmering debate about euthanasia and the role of professionals in end-of-life decisions in a country with Nazi ties to the practice.The Federal Constitutional...

SEOUL, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF -- South Korean virus cases jumped again Wednesday and the U.S. military confirmed its first case among American soldiers based in the Asian country, with his case and many others connected to a southeastern city with...