More British Columbians can start registering to get their COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday. People aged 55 and older can register online and by phone, according to Health Minister Adrian Dix.
By Wednesday, people 50 and older will be eligible, and those 45 years and up can register starting Friday....
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched another group of Starlink satellites May 15 on a mission that included two rideshare payloads.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 6:56 p.m. Eastern. The rocket’s first stage, making its eighth launch dating back to the Demo-2 commercial...
Four new cases of COVID-19 are being reported in Nova Scotia today, April 3.
Two cases are in Central Zone. One is related to travel outside of Atlantic Canada. The person is self-isolating, as required. The other is a close contact of a previously reported case.
There are also two cases...
Another Manitoban has died with COVID-19. The male, in his 60s, lived in the Winnipeg Health region.
Public health officials have confirmed 35 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 31,894. The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.9...
People aged 45 or over in England can now get a Covid jab, as the vaccination programme enters the next phase.
Appointments can be booked on the NHS England website, which temporarily crashed on Tuesday morning when it opened up to the new age group.
It comes after all over-50s and those in...
The Saskatchewan government is set to unveil its COVID-19 vaccination plan next week, relying in part on the province’s experience delivering the H1N1 vaccine.
On Wednesday, Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman said the government developed a “very robust” plan more than a decade ago in response to the H1N1 (or...
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on May 6 have some of the first solid evidence that sharks also rely on magnetic fields...
The BC Ministry of Health reported 1,005 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, April 16th.
There have been 117,080 cases since the pandemic began.
New cases were reported in these health regions:
Vancouver Coastal Health: 259
Fraser Health: 536
Island Health: 49
Interior Health: 110
Northern Health: 51
Active cases in BC have increased from 10,052 to...
