Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The Public Health Agency of Canada says COVID-19 restrictions at the border will remain in place for at least another month. The agency made the announcement on Twitter, the day after Parliament voted down a Conservative opposition motion to revert to pre-pandemic rules for travel. Several pandemic restrictions are in […]
LONDON (AP) – The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January, the World Health Organization said. In its latest weekly assessment of the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said there were more than 3.7 million new infections and 9,000 deaths in the […]
Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Public Health Unit has declared a Respiratory Outbreak at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home. The outbreak is specific to the East and West Wings and was declared due to a few residents developing a new or worse respiratory symptoms. As a precautionary […]
LifeWorks released its monthly Mental Health Index™ on Friday, revealing that for the 25th consecutive month, Canadian workers had a mental health score lower than 0.0 — the pre-pandemic benchmark. “Canadians have been experiencing nonstop changes and uncertainties for over two years, and time has not made it any easier […]
TORONTO – Two of the leaders of Ontario’s four major political parties have been sidelined with COVID-19 with two weeks left to election day. Both NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner have tested positive, with Horwath’s result coming Thursday morning and Schreiner’s coming the previous evening. […]
GENEVA (AP) – The World Health Organization said Thursday that it has granted an emergency use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by China’s CanSino Biologics, the 11th such shot to receive the green light. The U.N. health agency said the single-dose CanSino vaccine was found to be about 92% […]
Ontario is reporting 11 new deaths linked to COVID-19 today. The province says that figure includes deaths from previous days recorded during a data clean-up. There are 1,345 people hospitalized with the virus today, up from 1,122 the previous day. The number of people in intensive care because of a […]
Ontario reported no new deaths linked to COVID-19 on Monday, after reporting 10 new deaths on Sunday. The province says there are 1,213 people hospitalized with the virus, up from 1,167 on Sunday, though more than 10 per cent of hospitals did not report data during the weekend. The number […]
BEIJING (AP) – Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Notices issued in several districts said residents were ordered to stay home and are barred from receiving nonessential deliveries as part of […]
New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows a spike in the rate of youth hospitalized for eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. The numbers show the rate of eating disorder hospitalizations in Canada was 15 per 100,000 in the two years leading up to the onset of […]
The NWHU’s latest numbers show 151 active cases including two outbreaks — one at Rainy River Long Term Care Home, and the other at La Verendrye General Hospital. Kit Young Hoon, NWHU’s medical officer of health says cases look fairly stable. Despite the stable numbers, she says this does not […]
Ontario is reporting 16 deaths linked to COVID-19 today after reporting zero on Monday. The province says one of those deaths occurred earlier but was added to today’s tally as part of a data cleanup. The Ministry of Health says there are 1,699 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, an increase […]
