Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

Province counts another 23 people as having died while infected with COVID-19

The 44 COVID-19 deaths in a week is the highest total since June 16.

Genomic data can "give us information over time about what's changing."

The 32 COVID-19 deaths in week up to Oct. 15 is highest total since Aug. 27

“People are hurting,” said Susie Goulding, a long-COVID patient and founder of the COVID Long-Haulers Support Group Canada.  

Of 365 people with COVID-19 in hospitals, 19 are in ICU

The unvaccinated “have been the most discriminated-against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters at the Alberta legislature.

"Calls for increased police budgets to respond to expected increases in mental health-related incidents may be unjustified," the study says.

Another 19 COVID-19 deaths raise B.C.'s pandemic death toll to 4,321

An expected rise in cases this fall is based on waning immunity rather than the threat of new variants better able to evade immunity, according to the latest COVID modelling projections.