BC Centre for Disease Control

The first case of a new, highly-mutated variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been detected for the first time in Canada, British Columbia health officials said on Tuesday. The variant, dubbed BA.2.86, was confirmed in the…

British Columbia health officials have confirmed the province’s second case of monkeypox. The province confirmed its first patient on June 6. The second case was confirmed on or before June 14, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease…

British Columbia’s first case of monkeypox has been detected in a Vancouver patient. The BC Centre for Disease Control confirmed the infection through laboratory testing, it said Monday, and is awaiting further confirmation from the…