Vancouver Coastal Health

Plans for supervised consumption sites sometimes result in a community backlash but the response in the Metro Vancouver community of Richmond, population 210,000, has been intense and protracted, lasting long after authorities said in mid-February that a proposal to explore the idea had been scrapped. 

It noted that the Richmond Local Health Area is reporting a comparatively low rate of drug toxicity deaths, adding that those numbers are slowly coming down.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has announced the first case of monkeypox in British Columbia, bringing the national total to almost 80 cases.

The nearly 60-year-old Inglewood Care Centre, home to 230 residents, would be bulldozed, along with its hospital-like setting, as part of a "household of 12" model of private rooms based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers in Vancouver are working to unleash a new weapon they hope will defeat the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.

COVID-19 cases surged across Canada as several provinces smashed daily infection records and the nationwide tally crested 4,000 on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

B.C. health officials believe a woman in her 50s in the Vancouver area has contracted the new coronavirus.