New Public Health Orders Today Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix announced a series of new public health orders, along with the modification of recent regional health orders to now apply to the rest of the province. We will go over the complete list of orders below. While the total restrictions do notContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 252”
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COVID-19 Diary – Day 250
Black Market Negative COVID-19 Tests Surfacing With more and more countries requiring negative COVID-19 tests for travel into them, it isn’t surprising that a new black market for negative COVID-19 tests is rising up internationally. In September, 7 people were arrested in Paris for selling falsified digital certificates intended to prove a recent negative resultContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 250”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 249
Weekly Charts As you can see from the above chart, over the last week we saw about 1000 more new cases reported than we did the previous week, and almost double the total number of new cases than we saw the week before that! Our new case numbers continue to be a concern, and inContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 249”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 247
Ticketmaster Considering Future COVID-19 Options Ticketmaster is reportedly looking at new options for events that use their services, which would allow them to require proof of COVID-19 immunity or recent negative results from a COVID-19 test. Ticketmaster says they would not be requiring the use of this potential new option, but that each individual eventContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 247”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 245
November Epidemiological Update Today Dr. Bonnie Henry gave an epidemiological update on COVID-19 in BC. We will go over some of the slides here, but for the slideshow presentation please click here. For the video of Dr. Bonnie Henry going over the slideshow, please click here. From the above slide, we can see that theContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 245”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 244
Translink Launches Pilot Copper Project Translink has just announced a pilot project to test the natural anti-microbial effects of copper on their transit system. Copper will be added to high-touch areas on 2 buses and 2 SkyTrain cars and swabbed twice weekly to determine how effective they are at preventing bacterial and viral buildup. AtContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 244”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 242
Weekly Chart Update It’s Monday and that means it’s time for another chart update. We see from the above chart that last week’s total case count was more than 1,000 cases higher than the previous week’s total. This marks the first time we’ve seen week-to-week numbers with such a high increase between them. The recordContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 242”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 240
New Public Health Orders We’re breaking our trend of not updating on weekends or holidays to bring you this special update. Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix have announced the following new public health orders. For the next 2 weeks, starting today Saturday, November 7th at 10pm and until Monday, Nov 23rd atContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 240”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 239
Contact Tracing Struggling in BC Contact tracing (followed by isolation) has been a tried and true method of fighting disease transmission since well before the days of COVID-19, and some even consider it to be “the most important public health intervention we have” in our fight against the current pandemic. Many areas of the worldContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 239”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 238
By Popular Demand: A Search Bar Almost since the first day of this website being open to the public we have had requests to add a search bar. Today we are happy to announce that we have added search bars to our Home and Blog pages, for your convenience. Why did it take us soContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 238”
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