"After every call we're doing a wipe over. A spray with Lysol, or with disinfectant wipes and at least four or five times in 12 hours we're doing a very thorough wipe down."
Seven staff members have also tested positive for COVID-19, all of whom are now in self-isolation.
The spreading global pandemic has tested the competing interests of public health and privacy, with thousands of individuals experiencing both physical illness and the less-visible stigma that can come with it.
Province says there are now 1,203 cases of COVID-19 in B.C., but added 704 people have fully recovered after contracting the virus.
Health experts calculate that New York, home both to bustling Manhattan and hilly farm country stretching to the Canadian border, might be around a week away from the worst point in the health crisis which has killed about 60,000 people worldwide.
Health-care officials in Edmonton have opened a new clinic meant for pregnant women who are isolating due to possible or confirmed exposure to COVID-19.
The premier said in a statement that Sherry Gambin-Walsh, minister of service, informed him on Friday.
There have been seven more recoveries from COVID-19 bringing the total number of recoveries to 55.
The coronavirus outbreak at a Bobcaygeon, Ont., nursing home has claimed the lives of another two residents, officials said Saturday.
A medical clinic in a small Alberta town is withdrawing some services from their local hospital, a move that doctors in other small towns are considering.
There are the new dead. And then there are the bodies waiting in overcrowded mortuaries to be buried as cities struggle to meet demand and families wrestle with rules on social distancing that make the usual funeral rituals impossible. Med Alliance Group, a medical distributor in Illinois, is besieged by calls and emails from cities...
It’s not possible to know how this pandemic will end, Dawna Friesen says. That's a hard thing to accept in a world that's used to instant gratification.
RCMP warn the public to call police, rather than approach 19-year-old Travis Roasting who is wanted in connection with a shooting in January.
Police said they were called to the area of Harefield Drive and Hinton Road shortly after 7:15 a.m. for reports of a collision.
Extremists on motorcycles fought the army Thursday in the Tillaberi region near the border with Mali before being forced to flee, according to a defence ministry statement.
The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically altered international diplomacy. While the interruptions may seem to many like trivial inconveniences for a well-heeled jet set, they may have significant implications for matters of war and peace, arms control and human rights.
Global oil demand fell by one-third in March, as worldwide air travel all but stopped, manufacturing plants went on hiatus and workers around the globe heeded requests -- and often orders -- to stay at home over coronavirus.
An autopsy found that the body found was Tracy's sister, Pen Yun Ivy Chen
With thousands of people being laid off as the job market falls into disarray, people who have been looking for work are finding it especially challenging.
The Table Café at Codfathers Marketin Kelowna has been forced to let five employees go and the owner is left to prepare food and deliver it to customers.
Trump informed the Senate intelligence committee Friday of his decision to fire Michael Atkinson, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
RCMP in Alberta have rescinded a Cochrane teenager's $1,200 fine for not practising physical distancing while in a vehicle.
Suncor donated to 40,000 N95 masks to northern communities over the weekend.
Commemorations took place at 10 a.m. in all major cities, but were particularly poignant in Wuhan, the industrial centre where the virus was first detected in December.
Anxiety over the novel coronavirus is playing out in New Westminster, where a medical clinic says it's battling its landlord over its role as a COVID-19 testing site.
