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Members of the Muslim community in Newfoundland and Labrador are supporting Canada’s Lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Criteria took effect March 29 and more updates will likely follow during the pandemic as our knowledge of the virus evolves.

Doctors bracing for the impact of COVID-19 are finding time to give blood and encourage others to do the same.

Canadian Blood Services’ national system ensures that your important donations can travel to patients in need anywhere in the country.

Even in a pandemic, the need for blood and blood products is constant

There’s no evidence the respiratory virus can be transmitted by blood

Wyatt Lafontaine was diagnosed in June 2017 at only 10 months old with infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He spent several months at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario undergoing chemotherapy, with blood transfusions every second day.

Adam Schmidt has a message for those on the fence about donating blood: don’t fear the first time.

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Beckett, MD is the chief of general surgery and trauma advisor to the Surgeon General of Canada.