BURNABY, B.C. Holidays have been the hardest for the family of Nicole Porciello. Carmine Porciello doesn’t think he’ll ever get used to his little sister not being around anymore. “When you sit down for a family dinner, it’s hard not to notice her seat is empty,” he told CTV News Vancouver on Sunday. “Where she would have been, she’s not there.” Porciello, also known as Nicole Hasselmann, died in November 2018 after being thrown out of a vehicle along Barnet Highway in Burnaby. According to an agreed statement of facts, the SUV was crashed deliberately by Jan Poepl, her on-again, off-again boyfriend for some seven years.
VANCOUVER A doctor in B.C. s Interior is warning that COVID-19 cases are on the rise at a ski resort northeast of Kamloops. In a letter posted on the Sun Peaks Resort Municipality website Saturday, Dr. Shane Barclay writes that 15 of 40 coronavirus tests conducted at the resort on Friday came back positive. I suspect there are more, Barclay writes. The doctor says the people who tested positive are from all areas of employment and business within Sun Peaks, and he advises anyone with any symptoms in the area to get tested as soon as possible. The resort acknowledged a rise in cases in a statement on its website Friday, though it did not specify how many people had tested positive.
VANCOUVER Monday, April 12, marks two weeks since B.C. health officials introduced so-called circuit-breaker restrictions: new rules banning indoor dining, religious gatherings and group fitness activities until April 19. Since the measures were put in place, case numbers have continued to climb. On Friday, B.C. recorded 1,262 new cases. Two weeks is the incubation period for the virus and generally considered the length of time needed to see if restrictions have had an impact. Dr. Anna Wolak, a Vancouver physician, believes that may not be the case this time. “The 19th is too early to see any changes, I think it does need to be extended a bit further,” she told CTV News Vancouver on Sunday. “We are seeing more and more evidence that COVID is aerosol, it’s spread by aerosol, so the indoor spaces are dangerous spaces at the moment.”