Quebec is reporting 900 new COVID-19 infections Thursday and 10 deaths due to the disease, as hospitalizations continue to drop across the province. Of those 10 deaths, four occurred in the last 24 hours, another four between Feb. 11 and 16, and two happened before that period. In total, COVID-19 has...
Provincial police along with the Office of the Chief Coroner have issued a warning about sitting inside a running vehicle after a young woman was found dead in Ingersoll, Ont. A death investigation was launched on Monday after a 20-year-old woman from Bayham was found dead in her car at...
Saskatchewan’s daily new cases of COVID-19 have been coming down, but it wasn’t enough for the provincial government to relax public health restrictions at this time. On Feb. 16, Premier Scott Moe announced that the current public health order will remain in effect until March 19, 2021. That will...
New Brunswick health officials reported three new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday. According to the province, one of the new cases is located in the Saint John region and the two others are in the Edmundston region. There are 118 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. Six New Brunswickers are...
Last month, Alberta was forced to postpone first doses for more than 9,000 eligible health-care workers. However, those workers can now get the vaccine. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says those workers were unguarded and unprotected, they can now get protected with the vaccine. “Health-care workers were left waiting for their chance to...
Provincial health officials say another Manitoban with COVID-19 has died and 76 new cases have been identified. The latest victim is a man in his 80s linked to an outbreak at St. Boniface Hospital unit 5B in Winnipeg. Manitoba’s COVID-19 death toll now sits at 876. The new infections bring the...
Waterloo Region Public Health and local public school boards learned Tuesday that they will need to start doing asymptomatic testing. That morning, there were no plans in place for such testing in the region's schools, but a memo from the province that afternoon appeared to clarify that in-school testing will...
Ontario is reporting 847 new cases of COVID-19 today and 10 more deaths related to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 257 new cases in Toronto, 170 in Peel Region, and 131 in York Region. Ontario reports that 1,456 more cases of the novel coronavirus have been resolved...
Quebec is reporting 800 new cases and 14 additional deaths attributable to the novel coronavirus pandemic Wednesday. Health authorities say none of those deaths occurred in the past 24-hour period. The other fatalities were added to the growing death toll retroactively from earlier in the month and one death took...
A more contagious mutation of the novel coronavirus could be the dominant strain circulating in Montreal by March or April — but the spread of variants depends on how strictly people abide by public health measures and on how many cases are imported, according to Quebec’s public health institute. The...