Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, explained that there are two models for the future of the province’s second wave, one that would lead to thousands of new cases a day.
The “most concerning” model is the “penultimate or the tsunami-type wave” where there is rapid exponential...
Quebec Premier François Legault announced additional enforcement of the public health rules in place in red zones of the province, Montreal, Quebec City and Chaudière-Appalaches.
“If you’re inviting guests for a party, you’re breaking the law,” Legault said. “When this happens, police officers can give fines of $1,000.”
He went on...
Public health officials are calling an overnight spike of five new COVID-19 cases on Six Nations Territory a wake-up call for community members.
Ohsweken Public Health has reported three confirmed cases and two probable cases of the virus within 24 hours, according to a media release shared Wednesday evening.
They're the...
Nine people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus while 18 people have been listed as recovered, officials with the Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported Wednesday.
The region’s total case count stands at 874, of which 732 have recovered. The region’s death toll, 57, has not changed since June 12.
As...
Last weekend, we were commenting to a friend that it’s a surprise that, unlike the one defence people have against police brutality, there aren’t more videos documenting medical violence suffered by patients in health institutions. We had no idea that, two days later, Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman from...
Niagara’s COVD-19 case count continued to rise Wednesday with an additional nine new novel coronavirus infections confirmed.
The new cases come as Niagara Health is treating patients at St. Catharines hospital’s COVID-19 ward again and the provincial pandemic modelling suggests Ontario could see as many as 1,000 cases a day...
Interior Health (IH) has announced two new cases of COVID-19 in the region.
Currently, there are 21 active cases and those individuals are now in isolation.
One person remains in the hospital. Five cases are linked to the outbreak at Calvary Chapen Kelowna, which was declared on Friday, Sept. 25.
Provincial health...
B.C. has passed the 9,000 threshold for total COVID-19 infections, since the virus that spawned a global pandemic was first identified in the province in late January.
With 105 new infections, the total number of people who have been infected in the province is now 9,013. Of those, 7,485 people...
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...
Region of Waterloo Public Health added 14 new coronavirus cases to its dashboard on Monday morning.
A majority of the new cases are the result of close contact with another positive case.
There have now been 1,706 total cases here since March.
Here are some other updates from the dashboard Monday:
161 active...
