Brazils coronavirus death toll has risen to more than 16,000, with more than 240,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. On sunday, the mayor of brazils biggest city sao paulo warned the Health System was close to collapse. Earlier we spoke to doctor Marcelo Kalichsztein whos working on coronavirus intensive care wards in rio, and asked him how brazil is coping with the rapid rise in cases. We know that social distancing is important to secure our Health System against the effect of the coronavirus in hospital admission. But brazil is a very poor country and some people need to work on a daily basis to bring money home. Its a very difficult decision to make. Of course, we cooperating with the social distancing. I asked my parents and my patients to stay home, dont go out but we know that for some people and some part of the population it is impossible and brazilian people used to be a happy people but we are changing a lot, the way of li
Introducing a new monthly column from Kamloops city council, helping readers understand the issues council is working on. The column, to be written by a revolving roster of council members, will appear on the third Tuesday of the month.
High School students from around Kamloops completed wildfire firefighter training at the annual School District 73 Junior Fire Crew program at the Kamloops Airport held in partnership with BCWS.