Ten people have contracted COVID-19 at a long-term care home in downtown Vancouver that was the site of one of B.C.’s worst outbreaks of the disease last spring. Vancouver Coastal Health declared a new outbreak in the special care unit of Haro Park Centre on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the care home...
Public health officials in Waterloo Region are reporting 189 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths from the disease. Wednesday’s online COVID-19 dashboard update saw the total number of cases increase from 6,480 to 6,669. The epi-curve showing cases by reported date show that 132 of those cases were...
The Ministry of Health reported 412 new cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, after performing 11,028 tests in its latest 24-hour stretch. It now marks the sixth straight day that the province has failed to meet its goal of 16,000 tests a day, or its max capacity of 21,000. It’s...
New Brunswick reports four new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 48. The new cases are three travel-related cases in the Fredericton region and one close contact of a previous case in the Edmundston region. The Edmundston region remains in the...
The global vaccine-sharing initiative known as COVAX told Canada last week it could expect to receive between 1.9 million and 3.2 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine before the end of June. The numbers were confirmed to Canada Tuesday. But public numbers posted by COVAX Wednesday point only to the lower...
North Vancouver is legalizing drinking in some public places, so you can soon take a beer to the park. To help the city bounce back after the COVID-19 pandemic, North Vancouver voted on a few changes, Monday night. “We are doing something that cities don’t usually do, which is being flexible,...
Alberta is set to provide an update today on its COVID-19 vaccine plan. It comes as the first shipments of the highly anticipated Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Canada on Sunday night. Health Minister Tyler Shandro will be joined by Alberta's chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw at a...
A high school in Campbellton, N.B., has confirmed a positive case of COVID-19. Sugarloaf Senior High School principal Michael O'Toole reported the case in a message to parents and guardians Thursday night. The information was posted on the school's Facebook page at 9:30 p.m. Classes have been cancelled...
Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man who was found suffering from gunshot wounds following a crash in Pickering on Thursday afternoon. Durham Regional Police say officers responded to the area of Taunton and Brock Rds. around noon for a single-vehicle crash. Upon arrival they found a grey Honda...
The Government of B.C. has fulfilled its goal of hiring more than 1,200 contact tracers over the past few months—but as the province continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, its recruitment efforts are not stopping there. As of Thursday,1,235 people to date have been hired as part of...