| FIVE THINGS TO KNOW |
| | Booster shots The push for Canadians to get their vaccine booster shots is ramping up as the COVID-19 Omicron variant spreads across the country, triggering more pandemic restrictions in some provinces. |
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| | Travel ban Canada is reconsidering its travel ban on 10 African countries amid calls for it to be lifted, and questions over the government’s rationale given the increasingly widespread transmission of the Omicron variant across the world. |
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| | Omicron concerns
Ontario is now at the 'leading edge' of the Omicron variant wave -- but there is a light at the end of the tunnel, says one emergency room physician based in Toronto. |
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| | Defamation suit
A judge in Delaware has found that Fox News' coverage of election fraud after the 2020 election may have been inaccurate, and is allowing a major defamation case against the right-wing TV network to move forward. |
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| | Myocarditis research
A new study has provided reassuring data on the rare heart condition that some people developed after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, finding that clinical outcomes were mostly mild and similar between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. |
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