Two more units at Vancouver General Hospital are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks.Two inpatient units in the Jim Pattison Pavilion have now been closed to new admissions, Vancouver Coastal Health said Monday night.An outbreak was declared in another unit on Sunday.
New Brunswick reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the first time it has done so this year.The province is also reporting that nine new people have recovered since Monday, meaning there are now only 75 active cases
TORONTO — Ontario labour inspectors are homing in on warehouses and distribution centres, but the site of a major workplace COVID-19 outbreak isn’t included in the ongoing inspections: Canada Post.More than 300 employees at the postal service’s Gateway facility in
With wreath-laying ceremonies, tree plantings and church services, Italians on Sunday marked one year since their country experienced its first known COVID-19 death.Towns in Italy’s north were the first to be hard-hit by the pandemic and put under lockdown,
Thursday afternoon Health Canada declared an outbreak of salmonella in two Atlantic provinces.The federal agency says 57 cases of Salmonella Enteritidis illness were confirmed, of which 25 are in Newfoundland and Labrador, and 32 in Nova Scotia.According to the
Newfoundland and Labrador health officials are today reporting 44 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and another 21 presumptive positive cases.Officials say 42 of the confirmed cases and all of the presumptive cases are in the eastern region of the
The ongoing outbreak in Newfoundland and Labrador’s St. John’s metro region is the result of B.1.1.7. COVID-19 variant, which was first detected in the U.K.Premier Andrew Furey, Health Minister John Haggie and Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, the province’s chief medical
The COVID-19 outbreak at a North Bay, Ont., apartment building has grown to 18 confirmed novel coronavirus variant cases.Meanwhile, a total of 24 people in the Skyline Lancelot Apartment building have tested positive for COVID-19, the city’s chief medical
The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board is reporting 14 active cases of COVID-19 at Hillcrest Academy in Laval’s Chomedey district.School officials say they are currently managing the outbreak, working closely with Laval public health.School board spokesperson Maxeen Jolin said
A COVID-19 outbreak that was declared on Jan. 8 has ravaged an Ontario nursing home, killing 54 people and infecting all but one of the 129 residents.For staff, the outbreak has been exhausting, according to Ian DeWaard, the Ontario