WATCH: What is The Canadian Sikh COVID Task Force? South Asians are found to be more prone to #covid19 due to many of us employed in the front line. DARPAN Magazine's social media host Ish Sharma spoke to Dr.Navdeep Grewal and Dr.Madhu Jawanda who are both doctors in the Fraser Health Region regarding The Canadian Sikh COVID TaskForce.
It's an initiative to bring awareness to the South Asian community as the numbers are on the rise significantly in Fraser Valley.
Dr. Theresa Tam says hospitalizations and deaths tend to lag behind new cases by one or more weeks, raising concerns that Canada has yet to see the full extent of impacts associated with increasing COVID-19 transmission in many parts of the country.
As results trickled in from those key states on Wednesday, anxious expat Americans from those states watched the ongoing count with at least some degree of satisfaction.
A notice on the BC Hydro website blamed a transmission circuit failure for the problem.
The U.S. presidential race remains too close to call, with millions of votes still being counted in battleground states including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina.
According to surveillance video, a woman and man were involved in an altercation along West 59th before two men arrived minutes later in a white SUV.
Family friend Jacquie Perrin says Ward collapsed yesterday at his home in Edmonton and died shortly after in hospital, surrounded by his family and 20 days short of his 99th birthday.