Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

Despite a significantly-lower infection rate, Northern B.C. will remain in lockstep with the rest of the province as it progresses through the lifting of restrictions designed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, provincial health officer Dr.

Premier John Horgan released details Wednesday about B.C.’s plan for the reopening of services amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Bonnie Henry reported three new test positive cases of COVID-19 in northern B.C. Wednesday, bringing the region's lab-confirmed total to 54. Of the Northern Health caseload, there are 46 people who have recovered.

As of April 27 there have been a total of 2,839 COVID-19 tests conducted in Northern Health – or less than one percent. Northern Health has approximately 300,000 people in the entire health region – including approximately 7,000 staff.

“Alaskan residents travel north from their winter home in the lower 48, and this year is proving no different in spite of COVlD—19 warnings. There is no doubt that these travellers are stopping in communities for fuel, food and rest; the unfortunate truth is that the communities that they are patronizing are some of those least equipped to cope with the demands of a COVID-19 outbreak in terms of health and other resources."

University Hospital of Northern B.C. in Prince George is now able to test samples taken from individuals showing symptoms of COVID-19, with capacity soon to be added in Fort St.

British Columbians have been successful in reducing the spread of COVID-19, but the pandemic is still far from over and the return to normalcy will be slow and gradual, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said on Friday.

The province reported two new cases and three more recoveries from COVID-19 in northern B.C. on Thursday, with the region's lab-confirmed total now at 32.

Two more members of the Blueberry River First Nation have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and the band is getting no answers from Northern Health. There are now at least three cases in the community north of Fort St.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has launched a new site for COVID-19 statistics. And while the dashboard of data doesn’t give a complete picture of the 32 lab-confirmed cases in northern B.C.