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12 a.m. – 110 cases and one death reported on Thursday
There were 110 new cases of the COVID-19 virus reported reported on Thursday and one death.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said there have been 10,036 cases reported since late January, and in reality many more that were not identified in the early part of the pandemic.
Of that number, 960 have been reported in health-care settings – including 372 staff.
Henry said there were 1,394 active cases, of which 76 were in hospital including 17 in intensive care.
12 a.m. –Union Gospel Mission outlines plans for Thanksgiving dinner during pandemic
The United Gospel Mission’s annual Thanksgiving dinner in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will be a lot different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UGM still plans to serve more than 1,600 meals to those in need this weekend but they will be served “to go” instead of having hundreds of people gather in the dining hall, which isn’t allowed under public health orders.
Nicole Mucci, a spokesperson for UGM, says a limited number of staff, wearing personal protective equipment, will serve takeaway meals out the door.
There will be fewer meals served at several locations as well. The UGM says they will offer about 1,600 dinners over the course of several days rather than serving up to 3,000 meals on one day at its main building.
LOCAL RESOURCES for COVID-19 information
Here are a number of information and landing pages for COVID-19 from various health and government agencies.
• B.C. COVID-19 Symptom Self-Assessment Tool
• Vancouver Coastal Health – Information on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
• HealthLink B.C. – Coronavirus (COVID-19) information page
• B.C. Centre for Disease Control – Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Government of Canada – Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Outbreak update
• World Health Organization – Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
–with files from The Canadian Press
