Dorsetshire Hill man killed in Villa
Gorey Greaves of Doresetshire Hill was said, according to a source, to have frequented the Calliaqua/Villa area.
By: Kenville Horne•
Police are said to be investigating the shooting death of a 27-year-old Dorsetshire Hill man. The incident is said to have in Villa on Saturday 23, around 8:18 pm.
A release from the Royal SVG Police Force said that on Saturday evening, police were notified of a body of an unknown lying on the road in Villa leading to the Community College.
On arrival at the scene, police found a young man, later to be identified as Corey Greaves of Dorsetshire Hill, lying in a pool of blood with what appeared to be gunshot wounds to his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the District Medical Officer.
Northern Health continues to see large impacts from COVID-19.
In a written statement this afternoon (Jan. 20), Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced 500 new cases discovered in the past day in B.C., which brings the total to 62,412.
Of those, Northern Health recorded 35 more infections for an updated authority total of 2,978.
Health officials also announced 14 more people in B.C. have died from the virus, which brings the fatality rate to 1,104.
One of those new deaths took place in the north for a new regional toll of 54 since the pandemic began.
There are 4,345 people listed as active for COVID-19 throughout the province, 320 of whom are in hospital with 66 in critical care.
Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C. s Provincial Health Officer. / Flickr/Province of B.C.
The curve is trending in the right direction, but B.C. s COVID-19 death toll remains concerning for health officials.
Today (Jan. 18), Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reported 31 people that died from the virus since Friday (Jan. 15), four of which were in the north, rising the regional death toll to 52 since the pandemic began last year.
Across B.C., 1,078 people have succumbed to COVID-19 and there have been 61,447 infections since January 2020 after 1,330 more positive tests came forward over the weekend.
Northern Health recorded 166 new cases for a new regional total of 2,911 since March last year.
Prince George Secondary added to COVID-19 exposure list
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Three schools in Northern Health, including one in Prince George, have been added to the health authority’s school exposure list today (Thursday).
Prince George Secondary says the exposure occurred last week between January 6-7.
This is the third school in Prince George to post an alert in the new year, and the ninth in Northern Health.
Meanwhile, Uplands Elementary in Terrace warns of January 4-6 and Chalo School in Fort Nelson reports January 5-7.
There s one word describing the north s current COVID-19 situation: concerning.
Cases are still surging while hospitalizations are also on a steep incline, which is pushing the health care system in the region to its max, where resources were already limited before the pandemic landed in March.
Christmas break has also started for schools throughout Northern Health, something that may be needed for the time-being as the list of exposure events has rapidly expanded over the past month.
But perhaps the most concerning part is that Northern Health currently has the highest positivity rate for the virus in all of B.C., currently at 10.2 per cent from the most recent data from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).