Medically-trained members of the Canadian Armed Forces began to assess the situation in the province's long-term care homes Saturday. Around 125 nursing officers, medical technicians and support personnel have been sent to help after Quebec asked Ottawa for assistance earlier this week. Lt.-Cmdr. Heather Galbraith, a physician in the Royal Canadian...
A total of 316 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as of Monday, and 238 people have recovered from it. Travel exposure accounts for 134 of the cases, mass gatherings or close contact make up a further 132, 30 have no known exposure and 20 are under investigation. Four...
One additional positive test for COVID-19 has been returned in Manitoba, bringing the provincial total to 254. There are 105 active cases and 144 people who have recovered from COVID-19. The death toll in the province due to COVID-19 has risen to six. The latest casualty is reported to be...
There are now 19,319 cases of COVID-19 in Quebec and a total of 939 deaths, officials reported on Monday. Premier François Legault said during a press conference the majority of deaths are taking place in long-term care homes. The province is postponing all non-urgent hospital care in order to enable...
Ontario diagnosed 606 more people with COVID-19 since its last update, bringing the total to 11,184, and announced the death toll has risen to 584. The province also announced that the community outbreak appears to have hit its peak, well below the estimated 80,000 cases in the most-likely-scenario forecast....
Health officials in Alberta have diagnosed 241 more people with COVID-19, marking the biggest increase in daily reported cases since the start of the outbreak. Four more people have also died after contracting the virus. The updates raise the province’s death toll to 55 and its total number of cases...
There are now 315 cases of COVID-19, after health officials reported two more cases in the past 24 hours. One of the province’s cases is listed as presumptive. There are four people in hospital, including one in intensive care. Thirty-five cases are linked to healthcare workers, but the reason for transmission...
Health officials in Quebec have announced 72 more deaths related to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, to go along with 836 new cases. The updates increase the province’s death toll to 877 and its case count to 18,357, which includes 3,555 recoveries, up by 240 since Saturday’s report. There are...
Two more people have died in Nova Scotia after contracting COVID-19, increasing the province’s death toll to nine. It marks the third day in a row that Nova Scotia has recorded a COVID-19 fatality. The two recent fatalities involved residents of the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax, where five people...
The Ministry of Health has reported 568 more cases in Ontario over its latest 24-hour stretch, marking the biggest increase in reported diagnoses. The update brings Ontario’s case count to 10,578. Among those cases are 553 deaths, after the Ministry of Health also announced 39 more fatalities since yesterday. The...