Pandemic Preparedness (COVID-19)

Nova Scotia Pandemic Influenza Plan

Nova Scotia's most recent Influenza Preparedness Guide prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Newfoundland and Labrador's most recent Influenza Preparedness Guide prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Quebec's most recent Influenza Preparedness Guide prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Brunswick 's most recent Influenza Preparedness Guide prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Northwest Territories' most recent Influenza Preparedness Guide prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This page contains the framework for how Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED) works to utilize telecommunication throughout a crisis or disaster.
This page includes information regarding how the ISED prepares for an emergency, how they respond throughout a crisis, how they collaborate with partners, and the different laws that affect their efforts.

This page highlights the efforts of Canada's National Research Council (NRC) to begin the expansion of Canada's biomanufacturing capacity to start domestically manufacturing COVID-19 vaccination and their plans to build a clinical trial material facility.
These projects began once the Prime Minister announced the federal funding to support this project in August 2020.

This part of the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning (CPIP) guide focuses on the communication strategy in the face of a pandemic.
This guide highlights the importance of an honest and rapid dissemination of information throughout a pandemic and the strategy is grounded in putting the health of Canadians first, giving fast and sound information, having clear communication across all levels of government, ensuring confidentiality, and conforming to th

This element of the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (CPIP) guide highlights the strategy for surveillance, which is the collection and analysis of health data to guide public health decisions and is a vital component of the pandemic response.
This guide draws upon lessons from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and highlights the vale of sharing information across all levels of government to ensure early virus detection, report cases and deaths, understand virus seve

This aspect of the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (CPIP) guide outlines Canada's pandemic laboratory strategy and is directed towards laboratory professionals, clinicians, epidemiologists, and other stakeholders.
This document outlines the importance of a laboratory strategy to pandemic detection, vaccine development, antiviral resistance, and monitoring the spread of the disease.