It is a calculated risk, with the possibility that COVID-positive health workers and carers could infect colleagues and patients weighed against what the government says is a need to keep essential services running.
French President Emmanuel Macron burst into the presidential race with an explosive remark about the country's minority of unvaccinated people—in an apparent effort to win support from mainstream voters but at the risk of widening divisions over the issue.
A hospital network in the Niagara region is shutting down one of its urgent care centres to redeploy doctors and nurses to emergency departments amid worsening staff shortages and rising COVID-19 admissions.
After working overtime without much time off since the beginning of the pandemic, nurse Agathe Vezina said the latest measure feels like a slap to healthcare employees.
