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Toronto Public Health is reducing COVID-19 vaccine clinic hours for the summer

COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Toronto will operate during reduced opening hours during the summer, Toronto Public Health has announced. In a tweet, the local health authority confirmed that the new schedule will begin Monday morning at its vaccine clinics. 2:01 Ontario researchers focus on possible long COVID track Ontario researchers focus on possible long COVID …

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Doctors call on Ontario to open the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to all adults

Some doctors are calling on Ontario to allow all adults to get a second booster of a COVID-19 vaccine this summer, which currently limits the province to just a portion of the population. About 7.4 million Ontarians have received a boost, and nearly 90 percent of those injections were given at least five months ago, …

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Perseverance Mars rover wind sensor damaged by pebbles, but still operational

It turns out that Mars can be a very windy place. The Perseverance rover landed on the red planet in February 2021 carrying, among other instruments, a weather station called the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA). This instrument includes two wind sensors that measure speed and direction, among several other sensors that provide weather metrics …

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Twin brothers identified as armed bank robbers murdered by police in Saanich, BC

RCMP agents in Saanich, BC, have identified 22-year-old twin brothers Matthew and Isaac Auchterlonie as the two armed bank robbers who were killed by police in a shooting on Tuesday. Six police officers were injured in Tuesday morning’s shooting at the Bank of Montreal in Saanich, south of Vancouver Island. Police also said they had …

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