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BC health minister coming to Kamloops for health-care announcement
Kamloops residents may get some good news about the city's long-promised cancer centre tomorrow. Health Minister…
New North Okanagan health-care network to connect people with family doctors
The BC government is adding 75 more health-care workers to the Vernon area, including family…
Kamloops cancer centre plan to be presented ‘soon’: health minister
BC's health minister says plans for a Kamloops cancer centre are completed, but he hasn't…
Interior Health leading the way in B.C. with latest COVID variant
As if Omicron and Omicron BA2 were not making far too many people sick with…
Level of comfort: It’s time to make your own COVID safety plan in B.C.
The time is coming fast when B.C. residents will have to decide just how comfortable…
COVID making thousands of B.C. health-care workers sick
In a single week, in early January, there were at least 10,000 health-care workers off…
B.C.’s top doctor tells schools to make plans to operate short-staffed
Schools in B.C. are on track to fully open next week following the extended holiday…
5 cases of Omicron variant detected in B.C. so far: provincial health officer
There have now been five cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 detected in B.C.…
COVID-19 outbreaks close six operating rooms in Kamloops
Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops has forced the closure of six…
COVID-19 hammering B.C. Interior’s two biggest hospitals: health officials
The two largest hospitals in the Interior Health region are feeling the effects of the…
30% of unvaccinated health-care workers in Interior Health changed their minds, got the jab
In the week after being put on unpaid leave for not being vaccinated, 30% of…
Non-urgent surgery delays in Interior Health due to high COVID numbers, unvaccinated health workers
Some non-urgent surgeries will be postponed in the Interior Health region as early as this…
Mandatory COVID vaccinations for visitors to B.C. health-care facilities
With all health-care workers required to be vaccinated by Oct. 26, provincial health officer Dr.…
Vaccination rate more than 75% in B.C. with 180 new COVID-19 cases
There were 180 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. in the last 24 hours, including…
420 new COVID-19 cases in B.C.; 58 in Interior Health
Heading into the Victoria Day long weekend, COVID-19 is still hitting B.C. and the Interior…
521 new COVID-19 cases in B.C.; 62 in Interior Health
The steadily declining daily count of COVID-19 cases in B.C. took a reversal today as…
Daily COVID-19 cases drop to 494 in B.C.; 33 in Interior Health
There were 494 new COVID-19 cases recorded in B.C. in the last 24 hours, one…
694 new COVID-19 cases in B.C.; 52 in Interior Health
The number of people being infected with COVID-19 each day continues at a high rate…
UPDATE:1,006 new COVID-19 cases in B.C. as hospitalizations climb
The number of B.C. residents in hospital and intensive care continues to climb as 1,006…
B.C. health minister speaks out about ‘unacceptable’ personal attacks against Dr. Bonnie Henry
B.C.'s Health Minister is not impressed with people who are turning their opposition to public…
B.C.’s COVID-19 mass vaccine rollout to begin mid-March
B.C.’s mass vaccination program will kick into gear near the end of March as long…
91 new COVID-19 cases in Interior Health, 3 deaths
B.C. Health officials are reporting 500 new cases of COVID-19 today, Jan. 20, with 91…
31 COVID-19 deaths since Friday as B.C. marks one year of live-streamed updates
It’s been a year since B.C. started to get regular updates about COVID-19 and the…
Another 617 COVID-19 cases in B.C.; 81 in Interior Health region
As vaccines continue to roll out in B.C. the number of new cases keeps climbing…