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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COVID-19 Diary – Day 235
Weekly Chart Update We received some unpleasant news in today’s public health press conference, in the last 3 days over the weekend, 1,120 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed. Not only is this a new weekend record (by a large margin), we also saw the record for daily cases broken not once but twice! OnContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 235”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 232
Antibody Tests Now Available in BC Did you experience COVID-like symptoms earlier in the year but were refused an opportunity to get a PCR swab test at the time? You may be interested in a new service now being offered by Life Labs, COVID-19 antibody testing! Many people have been looking for this opportunity forContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 232”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 225
Canada Makes Another Vaccine Agreement Earlier today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada had made an agreement to purchase 76 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Medicago in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline. This marks the first vaccine candidate Canada has entered into an agreement to purchase that is being developed domestically. This isContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 225”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 223
BC Reports First School Outbreak Today BC Public Health reported the first confirmed school outbreak event, located at École de l’Anse-au-sable, a French-speaking school located in School District #93 in Kelowna. The exposure is confirmed to have taken place on October 13-15, and 160 members of the school community have now been directed to self-isolateContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 223”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 221
Weekly Charts With the start of a new week comes the weekly charts update. Over the weekend BC broke the record for the highest number of new cases in a single day, with 172 new cases reported on Saturday. Unfortunately, that record didn’t hold very long as it was broken almost immediately when 174 newContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 221”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 217
Symptoms Remain After 3 Months Since at least the first wave of the pandemic, the people of BC (and further) have been wondering about what possible long term effects COVID-19 could have on people. While the full extent of the virus’s effects on us may still not be known, a recent study conducted at UBCContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 217”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 216
COVID-19 Antibody Spike in Tokyo A pre-print study on the seroprevalence of COVID-19 antibodies in Tokyo is turning more than a few heads since its late September release. The study followed 615 outwardly healthy volunteers across 11 locations, all employed by the same company, 350 of whom submitted to 2 tests each with about aContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 216”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 211
COVID-19 Immunity Passports The idea of COVID-19 immunity passports has been brought up many times over the course of the pandemic. With some government agencies, and several businesses requesting them, and other government agencies and several experts arguing against them. Back in May of this year the company ‘MTÜ Back To Work’, located in Estonia,Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 211”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 204
Border Restrictions Update Today the Canadian government announced some adjustments to restrictions on travel into Canada, that should be coming into effect soon. Under the new restrictions, the following extended family members of Canadian citizens and Canadian permanent residents would be eligible to travel to Canada: individuals in an exclusive dating relationship with a CanadianContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 204”
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