Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

A resident of a Campbell River retirement home has tested positive for COVID-19. Berwick Retirement Communities announced the positive case in their Campbell River independent living facility in a statement on its website.

Another person has died and there are 92 more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in B.C., the biggest increase in one day yet, health officials said Saturday. B.C. now has 884 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and 17 deaths.

Donate online at rapidrelieffund.ca . More options below. The Rapid Relief Fund hit $2 million in less than a week. Amazing, inspiring, and a huge reason for hope, which is something we all need in these difficult days of COVID-19. We did it.

A collaboration between two charitable local companies is putting key medical supplies into the hands of first responders, clinics and hospitals in rapid fashion.

Fears over transmission of the COVID-19 virus has prompted the province to urge farmers markets to sell products online. On Friday, provincial health officer Dr.

Beginning Monday, bus drivers across B.C. will restrict the number of riders on board to allow passengers to maintain appropriate social distancing to help slow the spread of COVID-19. B.C.

A Victoria police officer returns from a call to find a message scrawled on the sidewalk beside his car: “Thank U VICPD 4 Your Service.

They’re not a stereotypical couple, so it stands to reason that they wouldn’t have a stereotypical honeymoon. Archdeacon Alastair McCollum is the English-born, motorcycle-riding, Ozzy Osbourne-loving minister at Victoria’s St.

Victoria police are warning citizens of scam artists who are using tales of COVID-19 to commit their crimes.

B.C. paramedics are reporting that 75 per cent of recent calls to 911 ambulance dispatch are related to suspicions of COVID-19 or other influenza-type symptoms.