. . World News – CA – COVID-19 Update for Nov.. . 23: Federal rent subsidy for companies opens today

The latest case numbers, exposure warnings, and guidelines: Here’s your daily update on everything you need to know about COVID-19 in B.. C.. .

Here is your daily update with everything you need to know about the novel coronavirus situation in B.. C.. . for Nov. . 23, 2020.

We will provide summaries of what happened in B.. C.. . Get the latest news at a glance here. This page will be updated regularly throughout the day with developments being added as they occur.

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According to the latest figures from Nov. . 20: • Total number of confirmed cases: 25. 476 (7. 122 active) • New cases since Nov. . 16: 516 • Hospital cases: 227 • Critical care: 57 • Deaths related to COVID-19: 331 (10 new) • Cases under public health surveillance: 10 Dec.. 002 • Recovered: Jan.. 477 • Long-term care and assisted living as well as acutely affected care facilities: 62

Health officials are expected to update the number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries across the province.

Businesses struggling to pay their bills due to the COVID-19 pandemic can apply today for a long-awaited new commercial rent relief program offered by the federal government.

The new Canadian Emergency Rent Subsidy replaces a previous business rental support program that was launched in the spring and saw little pickup as landlords relied on it to seek help.

The new program covers up to 65 percent of the interest on rent or commercial mortgages, based on declines in sales. Another 25 percent are available to the most affected companies.

Federal Cabinet Ministers will highlight the program during a press conference on Monday when they will also open two programs designed to help Black Canadians-owned companies.

The revised program requires entrepreneurs to pay their rent prior to applying, making the subsidy inaccessible for many cash-strapped businesses.

7:15 a. m. – According to AstraZeneca, COVID-19 « Vaccine for the World » can be 90 percent effective

AstraZeneca said Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine could be around 90 percent effective, adding a new weapon to the global fight against the global pandemic that is cheaper to manufacture, easier to distribute and faster to scale than competitors.

The UK drug maker announced that it will have up to 200 million doses by the end of 2020, roughly four times as many as U.. . S.. . Competitor Pfizer.

Only five international and six domestic flights with passengers infected with COVID-19 landed at Canadian airports last week.

This compares to 44 international and 60 domestic flights recorded the previous week, according to publicly available data from Health Canada.

Health Canada has approved the use of an antibody drug developed by Vancouver-based AbCellera Biologics to treat mild to moderate cases of COVID-19.

The move takes place as AbCellera – which has entered into a partnership with U.. S.. . The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly produces and sells the drug – announced last Friday that it wants to go public under the symbol ABCL.

12 a. m. – Nearly a third of testing at Vancouver Coastal Health is now done with gargle rather than invasive swabs.

Non-invasive saline gargle tests for COVID-19 now account for nearly a third of the tests done in the Vancouver Coastal Health area since they were made available to adults last Monday.

In a prepared statement, VCH wrote that the salt gurgle tests have only been offered to school children since September. 17, but were released as an adult test on Nov.. expanded. 16 across almost the entire test network.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise amid a second wave of the pandemic, B.. . C.. . The senior watchdog suggests testing all staff in nursing homes quickly.

According to Isobel Mackenzie, rapid tests – which provide results in 15 to 30 minutes – could be an extra shift to catch infected workers who are presymptomatic or asymptomatic and are unwittingly bringing the virus into long-term care facilities.

Countries with strong regulation and centralized monitoring of their long-term care have fared better overall in dealing with COVID-19, according to experienced Canadian senior researchers.

It is for this reason that co-authors Pat Armstrong and Marcy Cohen make recommendations to Ottawa in a discussion paper from the Vancouver-based Canadian Center for Political Alternatives, a left-wing think tank.

Here you can find a range of information and landing pages for COVID-19 from various health and government agencies.

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