COVID-19

Answers to questions about COVID-19, the virus claiming lives and disrupting human activity around the planet

Timothy Sly: We have to face the possibility that once coronavirus has spread within the community, the rate and scope of that spread is uncontrollable

’A lot of good things are going to happen,’ said the U.S. president as the number of COVID-19 cases in his country approached 1,000, and the death toll reached 29

The unsung heroes of the battle against COVID-19 work gruelling hours while placing themselves in danger. Then they’re forced to isolation and—in some cases—shunned.

The Jason Kenney government planned for sagging oil prices, not a full market meltdown. Will the premier now go cap-in-hand to Ottawa?

An Ottawa hospital has opened the country’s first drive-through test site, but the Prime Minister won’t get a test for COVID-19 until his doctors tell him to. The worldwide death toll has now surpassed 5,000.

Shannon Gormley: This new coronavirus has benefited from dictatorships’ aversion to accurate information. Will dictators’ lies, the lifeblood of their regimes, also be the end of them?

Tabatha Southey: As a near-pandemic spreads around the world, please wash your hands. And don’t touch your face. That won’t be easy. But, remember, wash your hands.

Timothy Sly: We can pay tribute to the pandemic planning of the early 2000s, without which we might not have been able to contain the cases of COVID-19 that have arrived in Canada so far. But the odds are stacked against this scenario remaining unblemished.

The chance to contain COVID-19 has passed. What will Canada do when it hits our cities, schools and hospitals?