At the onset COVID-19 it appeared that young people were largely spared from the virus. Now, doctors believe that a rare, mysterious illness appearing in children, dubbed Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome could be linked to the Virus.
Children have died in New York and in some European countries. To find out more about this rare yet serious illness we had Dr. Bhurji a pediatrician tell us more about it.
Here is Dr Bhurji.
VANCOUVER - Canada's first death from the novel coronavirus has highlighted the urgent and often ignored need for better staffing at long-term care facilities where elderly residents are especially vulnerable to the disease, says the head of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.
VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says seven rail cars that derailed in northern British Columbia last Thursday were filled with liquefied petroleum gas.
BURTON, B.C. - The RCMP are investigating after a fatal mobile home fire on the weekend in southeast British Columbia.
Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, announced the infections among seven new cases Tuesday, bringing the provincial total to 39.
Multiple health authorities reported a flurry of new positive tests for COVID-19, including one person at Canadian Forces Base Trenton repatriated from a cruise ship docked in California, and a man in Sudbury, Ont., who attended a large mining conference in Toronto.
CALGARY - Premier Jason Kenney says time is of the essence as he takes demands for more aid to Alberta businesses to the first ministers meeting in Ottawa this week.