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Vaccine supply issues delay rollout for B.C.’s elderly population: Dr. Bonnie Henry
B.C.’s elderly are being asked to be patient with the delay in getting vaccinated but…
UPDATE: B.C. COVID-19 rules on socializing and masks extended to end of the month
Rules against socializing outside your household and requiring masks in all public places will continue…
Further crackdowns on anti-COVID protesters may still be coming
Just because tickets haven’t been issued recently to two Kelowna groups violating COVID-19 restrictions doesn’t…
465 new COVID-19 cases in B.C.; 54 in Interior Health
While B.C.’s COVID-19 curve is bending in the right direction there are still hundreds of…
Surgeries postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak at Kamloops’s Royal Inland Hospital
Some elective surgeries have been postponed at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops as 92 people…
200 students at Kamloops high school self isolating due to COVID-19 exposures
Interior Health remains reluctant to declare the Sa-Hali Secondary School exposure events an outbreak despite…
Central Okanagan’s COVID-19 curve heading back up
After showing a steady decline in new COVID-19 cases for some weeks now, the Central…
BREAKING: Masks mandatory in B.C. middle and high school classrooms
Many students, and all staff, will now be required to wear masks, at times, in…
Three good reasons not to fly south this winter
With the federal government imposing travel restrictions to sun belt destinations last week, that’s one…
B.C.’s demand for seeds skyrocketing as another pandemic spring looms
The start of the pandemic in March last year saw British Columbia seed sellers scrambling…
Public health teams, WorkSafeBC increasing COVID-19 transmission hot spot surveillance
B.C. health officials announced 414 new cases of COVID-19, Feb. 3, for a total of…
Number of COVID-19 cases grow in outbreaks at Kamloops hospital, Okanagan care homes
The number of COVID-19 cases at health care facilities in the Interior Health region has…
COVID-19 testing ramps up at Big White after unsanctioned Australia Day gatherings
Five more cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the community cluster at Big White…
COVID-19 outbreak over at West Kelowna long-term care home
A COVID-19 outbreak in a West Kelowna long-term care home has ended. The COVID-19 outbreak…
429 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C.; 51 in Interior Health
B.C. health officials say there were 429 new COVID-19 cases reported overnight, 51 of which…