The Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has released details for the Back to School Guidance for the 2022-2023 school year in preparation for back to school. Routine public health measures for managing COVID-19 and other respiratory illness are recommended to...
Sports can be an avenue to friendship and learning for young people, but not everyone has equal access to these opportunities. A new free program, Girls at Bat, is offering the learning experience to Charlottetown area youth by exposing them to baseball. It’s a collaboration...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced one new case of COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island. The individual is in their 20s and is a close contact of a recently announced case who had travelled outside of Atlantic Canada. Contact tracing is underway. All...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced two new positive cases of COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island. One individual is in their 20s and the other is between the ages of 10 and 19 (no relation to any schools). They both had recently travelled outside of...
Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has confirmed four new positive cases of COVID-19. Three of the cases are linked to travel outside of Atlantic Canada – a woman in her 20s, a man in his 40s and a man in his 50s. The fourth case, a woman in...
Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has confirmed two new positive cases of COVID-19. One of the cases, a female in her 20s, is linked to travel outside of Atlantic Canada. The other, a woman in her 40s, is a close contact of a previously...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced 225 new cases of COVID-19 and 195 new recoveries as of 8:00 am on Friday, January 14, 2022. These new cases are still under investigation. There are currently 1,994 active cases of COVID-19 and there have been 3,861...
Islanders are being informed that a small tapeworm mainly found in foxes and coyotes, called Echinococcus multilocularis, has been detected in Prince Edward Island at levels higher than previously reported. Research conducted by the Atlantic Veterinary College between 2020 and...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, announced that Prince Edward Island will no longer require masks to be worn on public transit for Islanders as of June 3, 2022. “It is very encouraging to see the daily number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and institutional...
The Chief Public Health Office has received confirmation that Prince Edward Island will receive an additional 29,000 vaccines before the end of June. “Last week I spoke with Prime Minister Trudeau asking for additional vaccine and the importance of getting Islanders vaccinated so...