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Why wait for pandemic to fix clinic problems? Re: 鈥淒octors shift to virtual world amid pandemic,鈥� April 4. So, walk-in clinic doctors say: 鈥淲e鈥檙e here for you.

The president of a Victoria masonry business is calling for construction workers with virus symptoms to be tested immediately, given that sector has been deemed an essential service. Rob Tournour, of Rob Tournour Masonry Ltd.

Vancity has one-upped the major credit card issuers by offering to temporarily cut its card interest rates to 0% and defer minimum payments for those facing financial difficulty as a result of COVID-19.

Royal Jubilee Hospital is getting a $7-million, eight-bed unit designed to handle COVID-19 cases, possibly by fall. The high acuity unit will provide a level of care between a general ward and an intensive care unit, which is the highest level.

The physical branches are closed, but public libraries across 91原创 Island are as popular as ever in the age of COVID-19 鈥� maybe more so.

It would be dumb, at this point, to jump out of the lifeboat and start swimming back to the Titanic. That is, we in B.C. have done an admirable job of following instructions, hunkering in our bunkers and avoiding each other like, well, the plague.

Donate online at RapidReliefFund.ca . More options below. It鈥檚 an image that sends chills: An elderly family member, living alone, suddenly falls and breaks a hip, lying on the floor for hours unable to call for help. It doesn鈥檛 have to be that way.

91原创 citizens returning home to B.C. will have to demonstrate they can self-isolate, or they鈥檒l be escorted somewhere to see that enforced, under a new approach announced Wednesday.

Raising the heart flag at Victoria City Hall. Plus, the heart flag on display in windows

Nanaimo social-service agencies and governments are going flat-out to arrange for extra services and beds as homeless numbers jump by more than 25 per cent.