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TORONTO — sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ needs to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and take action before the next health emergency strikes, an expert panel of doctors and researchers say in a new independent report.

Nineteen people were charged in criminal cases and 18 people were convicted during the 12 months ending March 31, 2024, while 265 individuals or companies were fined during that same period.

Novavax's vaccine has been touted as an alternative to the mRNA vaccines, but Health sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says a very small portion of the doses ordered in 2023 were used.

Here are the experts’ answers to some of the questions you may have concerning the variant XEC.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are creating a new agency to beef up sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s ability to handle rapidly spreading infectious diseases and protect from future pandemics.

Health sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ approved Pfizer-BioNTech's updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, marking its third authorization of vaccine formulations that protect against the most recently circulating variants of the virus.

Health sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ recently asked provinces and territories to get rid of their older COVID-19 vaccines to ensure the most current vaccine will be used during this fall's respiratory virus season.

TORONTO — Doses of Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine are expected to begin arriving in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ "within days," a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says, although availability will depend on the immunization rollout in each province a

The Public Health Agency of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says it asked provinces to get rid of existing COVID-19 vaccines to avoid confusion with new formulations that will have the same drug identification number.