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Weekly COVID Report – Gulf Islands and Southern Vancouver Island

Contributed Article - February 12, 2021

PREPARED BY CURT FIRESTONE & STAN DERELIAN For the past three weeks, the absence of active COVID-19 cases on the Southern Gulf Islands has been...

Weekly COVID report – Gulf Islands and Southern Vancouver Island

Contributed Article - February 10, 2021

Prepared by CURT FIRESTONE & STAN DERELIAN For the past two weeks, the absence of active COVID-19 cases on the Southern Gulf Islands has been...

Weekly Covid Report – Gulf Islands and Southern Vancouver Island

Contributed Article - February 3, 2021

Prepared by CURT FIRESTONE & STAN DERELIAN For this week, the number of new COVID-19 cases for the Gulf Islands and immediate surrounding area remains...

COVID-19 vaccine strategy and timeline explained

Contributed Article - January 21, 2021

Message to the community from Dr. David Butcher, chief of staff, Lady Minto Hospital As you will have heard on the news, vaccinations against COVID-19...

Local vaccine clinic set for high-risk tier

Elizabeth Nolan - January 13, 2021

The first doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine are expected to be arriving on Salt Spring in the week beginning Jan. 18 for immunization...

First COVID vaccine due to arrive in Island Health in new year

Elizabeth Nolan - December 10, 2020

British Columbia health officials have announced that COVID vaccines will start to become available in limited numbers next week at two distribution centres in...

Salt Spring store personnel should not be abused over mask issue: RCMP

Contributed Article - December 8, 2020

Salt Spring RCMP have issued the following press release regarding the wearing of masks in retail spaces. “Local retailers on Salt Spring Island have been...

Centre School closed due to COVID-19 case

Gail Sjuberg - December 7, 2020

Salt Spring Centre School is closing early for the holiday season due to a confirmed case of COVID-19. School principal Carol Bremner confirmed the closure...

Contact tracing complete for GISS COVID-19 case

Gail Sjuberg - December 2, 2020

Island Health has already completed contact tracing for the member of the Gulf Islands Secondary School community who tested positive for COVID-19 over the...

GISS confirms COVID-19 case

Driftwood Staff - December 1, 2020

Gulf Islands Secondary School has confirmed that a member of the school community has tested positive for COVID-19. The school has not indicated if...

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