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.
Every Saturday morning you probably wake up feeling extremely lazy. You definitely don t want to make breakfast for yourself and especially not for others that live with you. I don t blame you, I feel the same way all the time.
Browsing through Facebook I found that you can possibly be extra lazy on Saturday, February 6th. While you are being lazy you can also test your luck. The reason I say you can be lazy and test your luck is because of a post I found on Facebook. The post was created by Parkway PTA and shared that they will be holding the Parkway s Annual Pancake Breakfast.
After 10 months of online learning, many Anchorage elementary students are finally returning to classrooms Published January 18
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Print article At Anchorage’s Creekside Park Elementary School on Friday, kindergarten teacher Rhiana Gay put the finishing touches on her classroom’s setup, placing clips holding face masks on the edges of the desks in preparation for the first day of in-person classes this school year. Most elementary students in pre-kindergarten through the second grade, and special education students in self-contained classrooms through the sixth grade, are set to start school in-person at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
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] Anchorage classrooms have been closed since March to in-person learning, and as they prepare to finally begin reopening, they are contending with a serious health risk and implementing scores of precautionary measures.
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.
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Park City High School and Treasure Mountain Junior High School were slated to move to remote learning starting Wednesday after COVID-19 case numbers spiked following students’ return from winter break. shows that the high school had 16 active cases of COVID-19 while Treasure Mountain had six. State and federal guidelines recommend shutting a school that has 15 or more active cases.
Superintendent Jill Gildea indicated in a message announcing the move that in-person learning would resume at both schools no later than Monday, Jan. 25. The schools have a combined population of more than 2,000 students.
Gildea said that once in-person learning returns, the district will test every student and staff member at those schools at least once every two weeks, a program known as “test to stay.”