Tag Archives: Health
Province posts four new COVID-19 cases, none on Vancouver Island
NANAIMO - Vancouver Island continues to avoid new, active COVID-19 cases.In a joint statement, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and health minister Adrian Dix confirmed four new cases of nov...
May 29, 2020
Vancouver Island overdose advisory extended for second time
NANAIMO - Island Health officials are seeing an "unprecedented" response to an overdose advisory but it's not the one they'd hoped. Medical health officer Dr. Paul Hasselback told NanaimoNewsNOW subst...
May 28, 2020
RDN replacing handyDART buses to improve customer accessibility
NANAIMO - Vastly improved service for public transit riders with physical disabilities is coming to mid Vancouver Island.Daniel Pearce the RDN's director of transportation services told NanaimoNewsNOW...
May 28, 2020
Island fentanyl dealer gets federal prison sentence from Nanaimo judge
NANAIMO - A Campbell River man with a lengthy criminal past received a federal prison sentence for dealing high-potency fentanyl and other hard drugs.David Anthony Lucas, 34, was sentenced recently vi...
May 28, 2020
Island Health to remain in charge of Nanaimo Seniors Village after 'unprecedented' number of issues
NANAIMO - Care at a north Nanaimo seniors home will remain in the hands of Island Health. Susan Abermann will continue as administrator at Nanaimo Seniors Village until the end of July. She was first ...
May 25, 2020
Despite warm weather, Trudeau urges people to keep safe outdoors from COVID-19
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians have a responsibility to themselves and to the people around them to follow public health rules to slow the spread of COVID-19. He also says that ...
May 25, 2020
Creative driveway workouts leads to fitness & lifestyle gains for Nanaimo family
NANAIMO - Getting dragged down by unhealthy habits isn't hard during a health pandemic.Melody Rowe, a 36-year-old a mother of two daughters who committed to a healthy lifestyle in late January with he...
May 25, 2020
Minds behind pandemic predicting algorithm already thinking about future beyond COVID-19
OTTAWA - The Canadian researcher who was among the first to predict the deadly spread of COVID-19 says the world needs to change the way it monitors for and reacts to disease outbreaks. Dr. Kamran Kha...
May 25, 2020
Nanaimo shoppers, retailers stickhandle COVID-19 mall experience
NANAIMO - Local shoppers and retailers are adapting to the new-normal at area shopping centres with varied levels of success.Many retail and personal service businesses were permitted to re-open by th...
May 22, 2020
Dine In: NanaimoNewsNOW samples new restaurant normal
NANAIMO - After weeks of take out or delivery-only options at several area restaurants, a relaxing of restrictions from the provincial government finally allowed for dine-in service.NanaimoNewsNOW's S...
May 21, 2020