Manitoba has passed 500 deaths since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as the province announced nine new fatalities on Tuesday. The death toll is now 508. Manitoba also added 272 new cases, pushing the total to 21,535 since early March. There are currently 5,762 active cases and 15,265 people have recovered...
The province has reported 1,887 new cases of COVID-19 since Sunday. Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw provided the numbers during Alberta’s vaccine update Monday afternoon. Hinshaw also reported 716 people are in hospital with the virus with 136 in intensive care. The province also saw 15 new deaths, bringing...
Premier Jason Kenney has confirmed the province’s first COVID-19 vaccine will be given in Calgary and Edmonton on Tuesday. Kenney made the announcement Tuesday morning following reports tweeted earlier in the day by his Executive Director of communications. https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1338900509567066112? Kenney said the first vaccine will be given at 4:00 p.m. in Edmonton...
Ontario reported another 2,275 cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, a single-day record that comes with an important caveat, according to the province. Changes to how Public Health Ontario collects and analyzes cases mean that today's figure includes 2.5 extra hours of data from several health units, artificially inflating the total...
Canada will be receiving up to 200,000 more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine next week and potentially up to 168,000 Moderna vaccine doses by the end of December. This means thousands more Canadians will be vaccinated before the end of the year. “Canada has secured our second agreement for early...
As Quebecers grumbled, debated and haggled this month over COVID-19 restrictions, especially Christmas rules, Chrissy Fredovitch could only watch. Quite literally, Fredovitch was lying in the intensive care unit at a Montreal hospital and had a hard time speaking out loud. Fredovitch, a healthy 42-year-old mother, caught COVID-19 while working as...
Ottawa Public Health is reporting its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in a week. In its COVID-19 dashboard update on Tuesday, OPH reported 13 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died. The last time numbers were below 20 was on Dec....
Quebec is prioritizing long-term care facilities in its vaccine rollout, despite the strict handling requirements of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine. Quebec is reporting 1,741 new cases and 39 additional deaths linked to the novel coronavirus Tuesday as the province is set to announce additional restrictions. The caseload and death toll — which...
Parti Quebecois MNA Harold LeBel was arrested Tuesday morning for sexual assault, according to media reports. The Sûreté du Québec confirmed they had arrested a 58-year-old suspect in Rimouski in connection with a sexual offence but did not confirm his identity. LeBel, MNA for Rimouski, is 58. Investigators will meet...
The Windsor Essex County Health Unit has announced 195 new cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, bringing the local total to 4,763. Cases increased from 4,568 on Sunday December 13th to 4,763 on Monday December 14th and 779 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex. Dr. Wajid Ahmed, Medical Officer...