WATCH: What is The Canadian Sikh COVID Task Force? South Asians are found to be more prone to #covid19 due to many of us employed in the front line. DARPAN Magazine's social media host Ish Sharma spoke to Dr.Navdeep Grewal and Dr.Madhu Jawanda who are both doctors in the Fraser Health Region regarding The Canadian Sikh COVID TaskForce.
It's an initiative to bring awareness to the South Asian community as the numbers are on the rise significantly in Fraser Valley.
Canada has also signed a contract with Abbott that will see the company ship 20.5 million of the ruler-sized test devices to Canada.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has said his party will support the speech after winning some key changes to legislation last week setting up new benefits for workers left jobless or underemployed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The private and academic partners in the endeavour were expected to spend over $1 billion over the same time.
There were 1,364 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in Quebec to 81,014.
Lawyers for Raj Grewal and the Crown agreed to have the case return to court Jan. 6 during a brief virtual hearing on Tuesday.
The defence has acknowledged Raymond killed the victims but says he should be found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.