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Coronavirus: Hotel at Sun Peaks ski resort confirms 4 COVID-19 cases among staff

coronavirus.The Sun Peaks Grand Hotel said the cases are “related to social interactions outside the workplace” and guests have not been affected.The hotel said it learned about the cases in the past two days and the workers, along with their close contacts, are self-isolating. Coronavirus: Big White cluster now at 96 cases, says Interior Health “We have diligently prepared for this type of scenario over the past nine months and have robust policies and procedures in place to effectively manage the situation,” the hotel said in a statement on the hotel’s website.The news comes after Interior Health reported dozens of COVID-19 cases in a community cluster at Kelowna’s Big White ski resort.

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Coronavirus: B.C.’s first case of COVID-19 U.K. variant confirmed

coronavirus variant first identified in the U.K.Health officials said Sunday that the case involves a person in the Island Health region, who had recently arrived from the U.K. on Air Canada flight 855 on Dec.

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‘Everyone is scared’: Nations face COVID-19 vaccine challenges amid wars, instability

vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.“It happened so suddenly. There was so much gunfire it felt like an explosion,” he said, recalling details of the attack five years ago in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal region near the Afghan border.A bullet shattered his thigh and he fell to the ground.

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All Jamieson Hall residents, staff test negative for COVID-19 after employee tests positive

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“Re-testing is important. It is how we are able to identify positive cases for individuals with no symptoms and this can control further spread of the virus,” the statement said.At the direction of Public Health, the facility said that some residents at Jamieson Hall continue to isolate in their suites with support from team members to monitor their health and facilitate safe recreational activities, video or phone calls and window visits with family members.“Visitors are not allowed at this time.

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Potential exposures to COVID-19 reported across central zone, one flight

COVID-19 self-assessment page or call 811 to book a COVID-19 test.This should be done regardless of whether an individual has coronavirus symptoms.On Thursday evening, NSHA released the following list of locations where an exposure may have occurred:[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Flight:On Friday, NSHA released another list of possible exposures across the central zone: “If you have symptoms of COVID-19 you are required to self-isolate while you wait for your test result.

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Crowds pack Lower Mainland ski hills amid COVID-19 restrictions

COVID-19 and fresh snow, skiers and snowboarders have flocked to the Lower Mainland’s local mountains this week.Mount Seymour and Cypress Mountain have implemented mandatory pre-booking to help manage crowds and parking for the downhill areas, but the roads to the mountains were virtual parking lots on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ski industry braces for impact of B.C.

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NSHA reports potential exposure to COVID-19 at 10 locations in central zone

COVID-19 at 10 locations in the central zone.Health officials are directing anyone who worked at or visited the locations on the specific date and time to immediately visit the province’s COVID-19 self-assessment page or call 811 to book a COVID-19 test.This should be done regardless of whether an individual has coronavirus symptoms. Nova Scotia reports 7 new coronavirus cases, including 1 long-term care employee in Dartmouth [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“If you have symptoms of COVID-19 you are required to self-isolate while you wait for your test result.

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Alberta reports estimated 1,100 cases of COVID-19 on Christmas Eve

COVID-19 on Thursday, in the first of a series of modified data updates the province will be posting over the holidays.An estimated 15,600 laboratory tests were done in the last 24 hours, and the province’s positivity rate was at seven per cent, according to a tweet from chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw.

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B.C. woman turns to mannequins with family’s faces for COVID Christmas dinner

COVID-19 restrictions banning social gatherings of any size, one Chilliwack family has found a creative way to host their loved ones for dinner.To be clear, no one from outside Esther Esau’s house will be present in person Christmas night. B.C.

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Don’t break the rules during Christmas, pleads B.C. doctor working in COVID-19 ward

COVID-19 ward at North Vancouver’s Lions Gate Hospital’s this week.He is pleading with the public to forgo family gatherings over the holidays.With new case numbers dropping, B.C. has a chance to either lock in those gains or undo all the hard work, McLeod said.

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Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw to provide COVID-19 update Wednesday afternoon

COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw is scheduled to provide the update at 3:30 p.m.

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B.C. to reveal latest COVID-19 data and modelling on Wednesday

COVID-19 modelling and data at 3 p.m. PT on Wednesday.Global News will stream the briefing live here on our website and our Facebook page and carry it on BC1.The update comes after officials announced 444 new cases on Tuesday, the lowest in a 24-hour period since Nov.

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List of recent flights through British Columbia with COVID-19 exposures

COVID-19 exposures on flights through British Columbia’s airports.Since March 27, health officials have not directly contacted travellers who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus on a flight, and have instead published updates listing exposure events.In some cases, seating rows where potential exposures have occurred are listed. In such cases, the B.C.

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Canada extends U.K. travel ban for 2 more weeks amid COVID-19 mutations

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Inmates, organizations concerned as COVID-19 takes hold in Saskatchewan Penitentiary

Saskatchewan Penitentiary are alleging a lack of access to cleaning supplies and growing frustration as a COVID-19 outbreak keeps them confined to their cells for 23 and a half hours per day.The federal institution announced an outbreak of COVID-19 on Dec. 15 when 24 inmates tested positive.

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B.C. reports 444 new COVID-19 cases, 12 deaths

COVID-19 on Tuesday along with 12 deaths.Of the new cases, 79 were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 256 in the Fraser Health, nine in Island Health, 78 in Interior Health, and 22 in Northern Health.The deaths bring the province’s COVID-19 death toll to 777.The number of people in hospital with the disease rose by 16 to 357. Of those, 84 patients are in intensive care.There are now 9,481 active cases in B.C., with another 9,723 people in self-isolation due to possible exposure.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The province also reported that 4,108 people in B.C.

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Coronavirus: Hours changed at some Winnipeg COVID-19 testing sites

COVID-19 testing sites are changing their hours over the holidays.The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says the Thunderbird House testing (715 Main St.) will close Dec. 25-28, reopen under regular hours from Dec. 29-31, and close again Jan.

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Experts urge caution as Quebecers crowd into shopping malls despite cresting second COVID-19 wave

COVID-19 pandemic.With no office Christmas parties or gatherings with extended family allowed in most of Quebec, there are fewer gifts to buy. But from Sainte-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal to malls across the city’s suburbs and beyond, the novel coronavirus hasn’t stopped everyone from coming out to shop.Most shoppers told Global News they weren’t entirely comfortable with going into a store, but did so anyway because they had gifts or essentials to buy.

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New Brunswick to provide COVID-19 update on Tuesday

New Brunswick reports 4 new COVID-19 cases on Monday On Monday, New Brunswick reported four new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 48.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Three of the four cases were travel-related cases in the Fredericton region and one other was a close contact of a previous case in the Edmundston region.

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Ontario reports 2,202 new coronavirus cases, COVID-19 hospitalizations surpass 1,000

coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the provincial total to 160,255.Tuesday’s case count is an increase from Monday’s, which saw 2,123 new infections. On Sunday, 2,316 cases were reported and 2,357 on Saturday.

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Coronavirus: COVID-19 outbreak declared in Saskatoon Police Service section

COVID-19 cases among Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) members has resulted in an outbreak being declared at one of its sections.The police force said it was notified that the recent cases among members of its Platoon Patrol Level A were related to workplace transmission and so that section of the service is now in a confirmed outbreak, under steps taken by the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).

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COVID-19 outbreak declared at Nakiska Ski Area west of Calgary

COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Nakiska Ski Area in Kananaskis Country.Alberta Health said that as of Sunday afternoon, it had been notified of 15 cases linked to the ski resort west of Calgary, all of which were active.

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Jury trials in Saskatchewan postponed into the new year due to COVID-19

Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jury trials in Saskatchewan postponed due to worsening COVID-19 situation Court officials said 19 jury trials were on the docket in the first three months of 2021.“We will continue to adjust our response to the pandemic as necessary, while maintaining the public’s access to the essential services the court provides,” Martel D.

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Quebec reports over 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 for 3rd consecutive day

COVID-19. On Monday, health officials recorded 2,108 new cases of the illness, bringing the total caseload since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic to 179,093.The number of hospitalizations continued its steady climb with 38 more patients requiring care in the last 24 hours for a total of 1,048 COVID-19 patients in hospital.

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More than 300 COVID-19 patients will be in Ontario ICUs within 10 days, modelling shows

COVID-19 cases continue to rise and the province’s ability to control the spread of the virus is “precarious.”The findings come in new data that concludes “hard” lockdowns lasting four to six weeks could cut daily case counts to less than 1,000.The new projections show that under all scenarios the province will see 300 intensive care unit beds filled within 10 days — double the 150-bed threshold where surgeries must be cancelled.

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COVID-19 outbreak declared at two Coastal GasLink worksites, 27 workers infected

COVID-19 outbreak at two Coastal GasLink worksites in northern B.C.On Sunday, Northern Health said the virus had been detected at two workforce accommodation sites, one at the 7 Mile Lodge near Burns Lake, and another at the Little Rock Lake Lodge near Nechako.“The declaration comes after evidence of COVID-19 transmission among Pacific Atlantic Pipeline Construction (PAPC) staff working at, and moving between, the two sites,” the health authority said in a release.

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N.S., N.B. paramedics face different challenges accessing COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine.In New Brunswick, the union representing paramedics and dispatchers says some weren’t able to get time off despite invitations to get the first dose in Miramichi, N.B., this weekend.“You have about 10 or 15 members that — 10 from the west, 10 from the south, east, and north — that have basically confirmed appointments for this weekend,” says Andrew McLean, the president of CUPE Local 4848.“Some of them are scheduled to work, and based on their schedule, they’re not able to be put off.” Coronavirus: Honouring the paramedics on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic McLean says since Ambulance New Brunswick’s inception, the policy has stayed the same; a time-off request is made if you have a scheduling conflict.

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Quebec reports 2,146 new cases of COVID-19 and 21 deaths linked to virus

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Of those, 146 people are in intensive care — up four from the previous day.Quebec has now reported 176,985 COVID-19 cases and 7,736 deaths since the start of the pandemic.Authorities say 719 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered on Saturday, for a total of 4,716 inoculations since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was first administered in the province on Monday.

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Study probing whether and how TransLink can rebound from COVID-19 ridership woes

want to hear from the public about what it will take to get them back on transit.Around this time last year, the transit agency was smashing ridership records.TransLink recorded more than 41 million boardings in October 2019. That’s all changed under the COVID-19 pandemic — in September, it recorded just 16.5 million boardings.

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B.C. reports 624 new COVID-19 cases and 11 new deaths

COVID-19 on Friday, along with 11 deaths.In a written statement, health officials said it brought the province’s death toll to 724.

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Chilliwack RCMP issue $18,000 in fines to churches breaking COVID-19 restrictions

COVID-19 restrictions.The province banned in-person religious services in November as part of a suite of new measures intended to curb surging coronavirus case numbers. In-person church services go ahead in Chilliwack again, in defiance of COVID-19 order A number of religious institutions in the province have protested the measures, which they say violate their constitutional rights.

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Initial doses of COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in London, Ont., within days

17 additional hospitals that will be receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks, local officials are providing further details.LHSC and the Middlesex-London Health Unit say health-care workers in local long-term care and retirement homes, as well as some hospital staff, will be the first in the region to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

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Guelph reports 30 new COVID-19 cases, active cases increase to 127

COVID-19 on Friday, raising the city’s total to 968.Active cases in the city increased by 13 from the previous day to 114. That includes nine people being treated in the hospital, which is three more than the previous day.

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8 German players, 2 Swedish staff test positive for COVID-19 inside Edmonton’s world junior bubble

COVID-19 inside the Edmonton bubble.The IIHF says the Germans will all remain in quarantine until Thursday. The country is scheduled to open its tournament against Finland the following afternoon — Dec.

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COVID-19 outbreak declared at second B.C. poultry plant this month

COVID-19 outbreak at a second poultry plant in the Lower Mainland.Health officials said nine workers had tested positive for the novel coronavirus at Rossdown Natural Foods, a processing plant at 2325 Bradner Rd. in Abbotsford.

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B.C. privacy watchdog rejects First Nations’ bid to access location of COVID-19 cases

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Chapman’s Ice Cream looks to help out with COVID-19 vaccine storage in Markdale, Ont.

COVID-19 vaccine storage in Ontario’s Grey Bruce region as the province continues to battle the second wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic.Chapman’s vice-president Ashley Chapman said his company started to mobilize after hearing that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine needed to be stored at -70 C.

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‘We are going to hit a crisis point’: Montreal doctors concerned as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise

coronavirus health crisis are concerned about the growing number of patients in hospitals and the mounting pressure on intensive care units across the city.Dr. Don Sheppard, an infectious disease physician with the McGill University Health Centre and medical microbiologist, says the trend in hospitalizations rates in Montreal is “extremely concerning.” He was working on a COVID-19 ward two weeks ago and should be heading back soon as part of his schedule.“The numbers are going up now quite rapidly,” he said.

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B.C. health officials to deliver live Thursday COVID-19 briefing

COVID-19 response at 3 p.m. PT, Thursday.Global News will carry the briefing live here, on our Facebook page and on BC1.

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Guelph reports 37 new COVID-19 cases, active cases increase to 114

COVID-19 on Thursday, raising the city’s total to 938 cases, while another 25 people have recovered from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.The city has seen 812 resolved cases and the death toll of 12 has remained unchanged since Dec. 8.

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Prince Edward Island to ease COVID-19 restrictions, allow larger indoor gatherings

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The province imposed what it called a “circuit-breaker” lockdown on Dec. 7 to smother an outbreak of COVID-19, the source of which authorities couldn’t identify.Morrison said the province reported six COVID-19 infections during the lockdown period, all of which she said were travel related.

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2 more COVID-19 deaths reported at Saskatoon’s Luther Care Special Home

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Nova Scotia reports 6 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday

COVID-19 on Thursday and said 50 active cases of the virus remain in the province.According to the province, three of the new coronavirus cases are in the central zone. One case is a close contact of a previously reported case.

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Quebec’s COVID-19 hospitalizations top 1,000 as province adds 1,855 new cases

coronavirus Thursday as the pandemic’s second wave continues to bear down on the province.There are 22 additional deaths, including three in the past 24 hours. The other fatalities have been retroactively added to the death toll.The COVID-19 caseload stands at 171,028, while recoveries have surpassed 145,000.

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Alberta health minister to provide update on COVID-19 rapid testing

COVID-19 rapid testing in the province Thursday morning.Heath Minister Tyler Shandro is scheduled to speak at a news conference at 9 a.m. MT.

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USask researchers creating filter to clean viruses like the one behind COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic.Jafar Soltan, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) chemical engineering professor, and a team of researchers were previously developing methods and catalysts to clean air using technology at Canadian Light Source. COVID-19 vaccine here, but Moderna shot and health guidelines still needed: SHA They were focusing on filtering chemicals and air pollutants, but are now also seeing how the technology can clean viruses.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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