Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

Children’s drawings, photographs and homemade cards for beloved grandparents are being delivered online to residents of Broadmead Care’s five long-term care homes, courtesy of the Rapid Relief Fund .

Adam Kreek won an Olympic gold medal with the Elk Lake-based Canadian men’s eight crew at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. His attempt to row across the Atlantic in a four-man boat, from Africa to Miami, ended in rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Premier John Horgan says people in British Columbia should congratulate themselves for their efforts to flatten the COVID-19 curve, but it’s still too early to loosen restrictions. Horgan said Wednesday that B.C.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps wants the B.C. government to use its emergency powers to requisition empty hotel and motel rooms for people without homes during the COVID-19 outbreak.

As the province makes gains in stopping the spread of COVID-19, Premier John Horgan warned against heading to small tourist-based communities, saying it’s still too early.

A privacy breach by the federal government has added insult to injury for 247 Canadian passengers who spent weeks in quarantine aboard a beleaguered cruise ship where four people died from COVID-19 and dozens more tested positive.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced 44 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and three additional deaths on Wednesday. A total of 1,561 people have tested positive for COVID-19, Henry said, and 75 people have died.

The number of positive COVID-19 cases in B.C. has surpassed 1,500, with 27 new cases announced on Tuesday. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said a total of 1,517 people have tested positive for COVID-19.

First, there was carpooling. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s plane-pooling. Last weekend, members of three Canadian political parties hopped on a government jet to travel to Ottawa to pass emergency economic legislation.

We’re at the finger-pointing stage of the pandemic now. That’s the part where we demand to know why our leaders A) didn’t see this coming, or B) saw it coming but failed to react quickly or decisively enough to head it off.