The updated numbers for the period noon Monday to noon Tuesday from Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, and Health Minister Adrian Dix bring total deaths in B.C.to 457 - almost 200 more than only a month ago. Henry said she knows many use recreation, including team sports, as a reason to leave their community or the province. Approval is not needed for the updated plans, but monitorin... [Full Article...]
He said millions more doses were due in the coming weeks. "The government has today accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to approve Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for use", the UK's department of health said in a statement . [Full Article...]
It's not the first evidence showing the virus could have existed or infected people outside China before 2020. The virus' presence in the United States in December does not mean that COVID-19, the disease the virus causes, was spreading widely in the U.S.at that time . [Full Article...]
If an inmate tests positive, he or she is immediately moved to COVID-19 housing, and inmates who receive two negative COVID tests are moved to the general population. The news release said staff with the sheriff's office and jail "remain steadfast following the state guidelines and are working closely with the Will County Health Department". [Full Article...]
UAB's previous record of 124 COVID-19 patients was on August 3. Dr Varon said the isolation of the Covid-19 unit was hard for many patients, particularly the elderly. " We work every day and people do everything that's wrong: it goes to bars, restaurants, shopping malls, it's insane", he said. While schools are safe, she said, nearly 9,800 fewer students are enrolled statewide this year, and k... [Full Article...]
Three more health-care facilities have had outbreaks of the coronavirus declared: Royal City Manor long-term care home in New Wesminster, Saanich Peninsula Hospital in Saanich and West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni. As of Tuesday, 23,774 people who tested positive for the virus in B.C. have recovered, according to health officials. She declined to identify the team or where it was from, s... [Full Article...]
According to a study published by the government, evidence suggests that 106 of 7,389 blood donations collected from US citizens in nine states by the American Red Cross were infected with the virus between December 13 and January 17, as WSJ reported . [Full Article...]
In any case, he pointed out that MSP and other issues raised by the farmers did not relate to Punjab alone but farmers of the whole country. "If the implementation of the laws depend on the states, why would the farmers from across the nation reach Delhi to talk to the Centre and put their demands forward", he asked during a digital press conference. [Full Article...]