Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced that Prince Edward Island has received approximately 1,950 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today. “This is a very exciting week for PEI as we receive the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine and prepare to...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has confirmed four new positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to seven. Two cases are essential workers not employed in the healthcare industry – a woman in her 40s and a man in his...
Residents of West Prince will have access to more stable, quality health care in their community with all permanent registered nursing positions filled at Western Hospital for the first time in several years. Over the last year, Recruitment and Retention and Health PEI have...
Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has confirmed two new unrelated positive cases of COVID-19 for the province. Both cases are male – one is in his 20s and one in his 50s – who work in unrelated non-health care industries and recently...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced two additional positive COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to five. The two additional cases are both men in their 20s and residents of PEI. They are both close contacts of one...
During National Non-Smoking Week, January 19-25, 2020, Islanders are encouraged to quit smoking and begin living tobacco-free. Islanders who want to quit smoking can now access the province’s new smoking cessation program by contacting their nearest primary care network. The...
Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has confirmed one new positive case of COVID-19 in the province related to travel. The individual is a woman in her 50s who arrived in the province on December 17 following domestic travel outside Atlantic...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced two new positive cases of COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island. The first case is a male student at Charlottetown Rural High School. He travelled two and from school on the bus only two days last week – Wednesday...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has confirmed that there are no new positive cases of COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island and all test results received in the last 24 hours have come back negative. Yesterday, 1,300 COVID-19 tests were processed province-wide and...
Students will be able to participate in some school sports when school resumes next week. Outdoor sports including field hockey, soccer, senior baseball, and golf can start tryouts on September 14. Indoor sports, as well as cross-country, will remain paused. “Sports play an...