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Michael Sabia stands at a lecturn March 23, 2020 COVID-19 poses unprecedented tests for governments, U of T's Michael Sabia writes in Globe and Mail
Photo of a closed sign on the window of a jazz club March 20, 2020 'Early and bold interventions are best': U of T researcher on simulating a pandemic response
U of T med students who organized volunteers to help frontline health-care workers during COVID-19 outbreak March 19, 2020 As COVID-19 battle escalates, U of T students offer busy health-care workers help on the home front
Covid-19 sign is taped to a wall March 19, 2020 COVID-19: ‘We want to control the burn as best we can,' U of T epidemiologists write in the Globe and Mail
Photo of cranes and construction workers at the site of two new hospitals in Wuhan, China March 18, 2020 Canada needs ‘wartime mentality’ to fight COVID-19: U of T researcher in Toronto Star
A pedestrian walks in front of an empty Ripley's Aquarium in downtown Toronto March 17, 2020 ‘The window for action is right now’: U of T epidemiologist on the effectiveness of social distancing
photo of a boy in a red jacket looking at a coronvirus sign hanging on a playground gate March 17, 2020 U of T child psychiatrists share tips with Globe and Mail on talking to children about COVID-19
Robert Kozak and Samira Mubareka stand in a hallway March 13, 2020 U of T and McMaster researchers at Sunnybrook Hospital isolate virus behind COVID-19
Photo of Mumbai skyline March 12, 2020 U of T and IIT Bombay to launch entrepreneurship program, shared innovation pipeline
U of T researchers Sachdev Sidhu, Wei Zhang and Jacky Chung sit around a table March 11, 2020 U of T researchers hunt for antivirals to treat COVID-19 patients
composite image of U of T researchers March 10, 2020 'We're learning more every day': How U of T is leading efforts to understand – and respond to – COVID-19
Toronto General Hospital March 10, 2020 Toronto General Hospital ranked 4th in the world: Newsweek
A researcher uses a pipette to drop fluid into a glass bottle behind a glass fume hood March 6, 2020 With new federal funding, U of T researchers aid global effort to understand and control COVID-19
Photo of a student walking in a market March 6, 2020 U of T expands Reach Project, focused on international development, to other universities
Photo of Grace De Souza in the lab March 4, 2020 'A mindset that needs to change': U of T researcher promotes gender equality on the global stage
Students walking past robarts library from north to south surrounded by green foliage March 4, 2020 U of T ranked first in Canada in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020
Portrait of Kamran Khan March 4, 2020 U of T’s Kamran Khan on how his startup used AI to spot the coronavirus before anyone else: CNBC
a doctor attends to an anonymous patient while another patient waits on a hospital bed in the hallway of a hospital February 28, 2020 U of T experts speak to Globe and Mail about Canada's move to active detection of coronavirus cases
"" February 26, 2020 U of T researchers receive Canada-UK funding to develop AI-powered microrobots to capture brain cells
Mira Chow, Jonathan Ng and Kate Cheung sit on a sofa in front of a window with plants in the background February 24, 2020 U of T undergraduate students track variation in languages spoken by Toronto's immigrant communities