The Week That Was – March 1-5, 2021
Mar 6, 2021 | 5:24 AM
Vern Strecheniuk
Every weekend Q101 publishes the ‘Week That Was’ highlighting some of the most interesting news stories of the week.
COVID-19 related stories will be mostly excluded from these articles (for the latest COVID-19 stats click here).
This week Merritt was talking about another COVID-19 case detected in a local school, record overdoses in BC, stage 2 of the immunization plan, and a provincial rent freeze extension.
First COVID-19 case in over a month confirmed at MSS
School District 58 Nicola Similkameen is informing parents of a positive case of COVID-19 at Merritt Secondary School (MSS).
The exposure is stated to have occurred on February 24, 2021.
Record number of January overdoses in BC
Following a record-setting year in 2020, the BC Coroners Service reports 165 suspected illicit drug toxicity deaths in January 2021, the largest ever number of lives lost due to illicit drugs in the first month of a calendar year.
BC enters phase 2 of immunization plan
More than 400,000 people in British Columbia will be immunized from March to early April as the Province moves into Phase 2 of the largest immunization rollout in B.C.’s history.
BC looking to extend rent freeze
Legislative changes, if passed, will build on the Province’s work to give British Columbians more security by extending the rent freeze to Dec. 31, 2021.
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