Another Manitoban has died of COVID-19, and 100 new cases have been reported in the province – as cases continue to grow in Winnipeg and across the province. On Monday, Dr. Brent Roussin, the chief provincial public health officer, announced the most recent death is a woman in her 80s....
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on May 19, 2020: There are 78,072 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 43,627 confirmed (including 3,596 deaths, 12,045 resolved) _ Ontario: 22,957 confirmed (including 1,904 deaths, 17,638 resolved) _ Alberta: 6,683 confirmed (including 128...
Zero COVID-19-related deaths have been reported over the past 24 hours in Quebec. The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux has added 11 coronavirus-related deaths to the provincial tally, eight of which were from February 19 and 24. Three virus-related deaths occurred earlier in February. Public health also added...
A “data transmission problem” is behind Quebec’s biggest daily jump in fatalities, as the province reported 202 victims on Sunday. Thirty-seven people died in the last 24 hours throughout the entire province, but health officials are just announcing 165 victims that “were not counted” in days and weeks prior,...
New Brunswick reported six new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total number of active cases to 94. In a press briefing, Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health, said four of the cases are in Zone 2 (Saint John area) and two are in Zone 1 (Moncton...
Interior Health (IH) recorded 212 new cases of COVID-19 over the final weekend of November, the health authority announced on Monday, Nov. 30. A total of 490 cases are currently active. Fifteen people are in hospital, five of whom are in intensive care. Interior Health also announced an outbreak at a...
The B.C. government has announced 446 new COVID-19 cases, including 67 in the Interior Health region. The new cases bring the province’s total to 58,553, although the vast majority have already recovered. There are 5,045 active cases in B.C., a figure that has been falling gradually over the past few...
Canada has two more cases of the more infectious COVID-19 strain. Ontario health officials diagnosed a person in Ottawa with the variant, which first cropped up in the U.K. The person had recently travelled there. British Columbia announced on Sunday that the country’s fourth case is someone who recently flew from...
The Ontario government is extending all emergency orders currently in force until July 10. The current order was in place until June 30. The Province says the extension of the emergency orders will allow key measures needed in the fight against COVID-19 to continue, including allowing frontline healthcare providers and public...
"We're staring down the barrel of another lockdown," Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday. "And I will not hesitate for a second if we have to go further." It was a blunt statement about a blunt instrument: some combination of widespread restrictions, closures and a potential declaration of emergency. It's...