On Sunday, Health Minister Greg Hunt said the government would invite the country's roughly 5,800 community pharmacies this week to apply for a federally-funded programme to pay them to administer inoculations, along with doctors and hospital health workers. [Full Article...]
Accompanying the letter from School District 42 is another letter from Fraser Health, which has recommended testing for staff and students who "may have been exposed to this case when they were present at school". So far, there's no indication that a COVID-19 variant has entered the school population at Garibaldi secondary in Maple Ridge. "If you have not been contacted, there is no risk of exposu... [Full Article...]
The death toll is now up to 21,687. Hospitalizations dropped to 438 patients in Monday's report, It's the lowest number of patients since November 21. The new cases bring Lehigh County's case count to 28,240 and Northampton County's up to 23,585. This is better when compared to the country average of 1.4 percent, which means that Telangana is recording 1 death in every 200 people whereas t... [Full Article...]
Co Clare now has the seventh lowest 14 day incidence rate of COVID-19 in the country while 18 new cases are known here among the 1,414 nationally as health officials announced 79 further deaths. 39 more people with the virus have been admitted to hospital, bringing the total to 1,516. Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan warned about the remaining level of infection on Saturday evening, althoug... [Full Article...]
Health Minister Christine Elliott says that there are 886 new cases in Toronto, 330 in Peel Region and 128 in York Region. In recent days, Toronto Public Health has been dealing with a "data catch-up" as it migrates to the provincial tracking system. [Full Article...]
As new cases of COVID-19 continue to spread and new variants are proving to be hard to control, some are starting to suggest it may be time to start wearing two masks. But now that restrictions are being lifted just as these more transmissible variants arrive, double-masking is the best way to go. Here are two other good choices for face masks. [Full Article...]
The sobering figure emerged this morning after Quebec reported 31 new fatalities related to the virus. Ontario reported 43 people have died as a result of the coronavirus on Sunday as the number of new cases fell below 2,000. There have been five cases of the new variants caught at Pearson through voluntary testing of travellers. In Ontario , there are 51 confirmed cases of the United Kin... [Full Article...]
Bonnie Henry said that by specific health region, this equates to 174 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 218 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 30 in the Island Health region, 70 in the Interior Health region, 51 in the Northern Health region, and three new cases of people who normally reside outside of Canada. [Full Article...]