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Section size for COVID-19 pandemic in Canada (47 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	18,657	18,657
Background and epidemiology	2,754	2,754
Preparations	5,571	5,571
Timeline of outbreak in Canada	176	176
Vaccination	137	137
Variants of concern	5,568	5,568
Government response	25	109,491
Federal	1,513	53,987
Public health	9,656	9,656
Long-term care homes	6,037	6,037
Canadian Armed Forces	1,013	1,013
Travel and entry restrictions	17,819	17,819
Governmental cancellations	1,361	1,361
Bank of Canada rate changes	2,595	2,595
Federal aid	8,866	8,866
Industrial strategy	4,170	4,170
Virtual care	957	957
States of emergency	42,944	50,225
Schools and universities	1,713	1,713
Business closures	4,361	4,361
Aid programs	1,207	1,207
Courts	1,447	1,447
First Nations	3,807	3,807
Economic impact	355	355
Pandemic by province or territory	1,256	1,256
COVID-19 testing	3,686	25,825
Role of the Government of Canada	42	6,220
Federal approval and regulation of diagnostic tests	2,501	2,501
National Microbiology Lab	2,680	2,680
Federal facilitation of testing	997	997
Types of COVID-19 tests	33	15,919
Virus-RNA tests	3,108	8,345
Virus-RNA test reagent kits	891	891
Canadian-made viral RNA test systems	4,346	4,346
Serological testing for antibodies	2,069	5,729
Research and population immunity	2,466	2,466
Canadian-made antibody tests	1,194	1,194
Rapid antigen testing	1,168	1,812
Canadian-made rapid antigen tests	644	644
Statistics	692	4,537
National maps	608	608
By age	2,275	2,275
Deaths	962	962
Assessments of responses to the pandemic	3,154	3,154
See also	422	422
References	33	33
External links	1,155	1,155
Total	179,091	179,091

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