Public Health Agency of Canada

This data blog presents statistics on suicide mortality, plans, thoughts, and attempts, and self-inflicted injury hospitalizations in Canada. Socio-demographic differences are highlighted.

COVID Alert is Canada's free exposure notification application. COVID Alert helps us break the cycle of infection. The application can let people know of possible exposures before any symptoms appear.

About coronaviruses, symptoms of infection, how coronaviruses are diagnosed and treatment for coronavirus infection.

What you, and what communities can do to lower the spread of COVID-19 in settings including social services, workplaces, outdoors, community, religious, transport and remote and Indigenous communities.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (the HPCDP Journal) is the monthly, online scientific journal of the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The journal publishes articles on disease...

Outlines surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 and provides instructions on reporting to the national level. Surveillance case definitions are provided for the purpose of standardized case classification and reporting to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Colouring pages that show what children can do to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

A guide to support ethics deliberation and decision-making in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the various transition phases that will occur over the course of the pandemic.

Interactive data map of COVID-19 cases around the world. Shows number of total cases and deaths by country over time, starting from December 31, 2019 to present time.

Interactive data map of COVID-19 cases across Canada. Shows number of individual tested, total cases, deaths and cases recovered over time by provinces, territories and national levels starting from 2020-01-31 to present time. The values are updated daily.

Information on demographics and outcomes for reported COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities.

Data products about the epidemiological, social and economic dimensions of the outbreak. Includes datasets, dashboards, statistics, analyses, trends, charts and maps. Also includes a list of locations where people may have been exposed to the virus.

Mathematical modelling of COVID-19 pandemic which uses mathematical equations to estimate how many cases of a disease may occur in the coming weeks or months.

This document provides guidance specific to the COVID-19 pandemic in outpatient and ambulatory care settings. Outpatient and ambulatory care settings are defined here as those providing health care on an outpatient basis and can include hospital-based and non-hospital based clinics, physician...

Here you will find information regarding Acts and Regulations associated with the Public Health Agency of Canada, including COVID-19 Emergency Orders in Council (OIC) pursuant to section 58 of the Quarantine Act.

This page presents detailed information on Canada's whole-of-government actions to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.

To understand this new disease, we need to advance research and technology development in order to slow, and eventually stop the spread of this infection. That is why the Government of Canada has mobilized Canada's research and scientific communities in response to the spread of COVID-19 at the...

In order to develop technical guidance to support F/P/T public health authorities and front-line clinicians in health care settings responding to the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, a number of assumptions were taken to develop interim guidance documents.

This document outlines the recommended goals, objectives, and activities for surveillance of human infection with COVID-19 in Canada. These guidelines are based on current available scientific evidence and expert opinion and are subject to change as new information becomes available.

Research: Gap analyses to assess Canadian readiness for respiratory syncytial virus vaccines: Report from an expert retreat. Published on Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR), volume 46-4, April 2, 2020.