Public Health Agency of Canada

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases.

This evergreen document will be updated as COVID-19 vaccines are authorized and become available for use in Canada, and as evidence on these vaccines and COVID-19 evolves. This table summarizes the latest changes to this current version. Please refer to the Table of updates for a full list of...

This report presents evidence-informed recommendations for testing a vaccinated population and vaccinated individuals.

COVID-19 information for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers.

With new, more transmissible variants of the COVID-19 virus in countries around the world, the Government of Canada continues to take a data-driven and precautionary approach to its border measures for travellers entering Canada. The Government of Canada's phased approach to easing border...

The Government of Canada and some provincial/territorial governments are providing free rapid COVID-19 tests to organizations for regular workplace screening of close-contact employees. Rapid tests are easy to administer and provide a result in 15 minutes.

This report provides an update on the epidemiology of three nationally notifiable STIs in Canada: chlamydia, gonorrhea and infectious syphilis (including congenital syphilis) using data up to 2018, by province/territory, age group and sex. In addition, updated information related to syphilis...

Canada has taken unprecedented action to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our country, based on the public health measures introduced by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and PHAC have put in place enhanced health and safety measures to help...

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases.

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases

"The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. "

Rapid disappearance of influenza following the implementation of COVID-19 mitigation measures in Hamilton, Ontario

Diagnosing and how we test, testing importance and contact tracing, increasing testing supply, test accuracy, testing for travellers, national overview of tests performed, roles and responsibilities, authorized testing devices, testing devices under review, access to and types of testing devices,...

The Government of Canada has established a number of advisory groups and task forces composed of stakeholders from the public sector, private sector and/or academia and research community, to provide recommendations or actions to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

Federal partners are actively working together to support provinces and territories in responding to COVID-19.

Testing is the only way we can confirm if you have COVID-19. Knowing you're infected is important to protect your family and the people you encounter.

Testing for the virus, testing accuracy depends on when you get tested, and testing for antibodies.

The National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) provides critical scientific leadership for Canada’s response to COVID-19.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), in collaboration with Canadian public health experts, has developed this guidance for post-secondary institutions administrators and local public health authorities (PHAs) in jurisdictions where these institutions exist in the context of the coronavirus...

The Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR) is a bilingual, peer-reviewed, open-access, online scientific journal published by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). It provides timely, authoritative and practical information on infectious diseases to clinicians, public health...