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A Tignish doctor who has been practising medicine on the Island for a little more than a year is leaving the province.

P.E.I.’s health minister says he directed staff to consider a significant change to a new health-care training program on the same day the program was announced.

A recently announced moratorium on commercial fishing of mackerel and herring off the East Coast is necessary to allow the stocks to recover, researchers with Fisheries and Oceans Canada say. And it may take more than one year.

The P.E.I. government has already started work to find alternative baits for lobster fishermen, the fisheries minister said in response to a moratorium on the herring and mackerel fishery announced Wednesday.

Car rental companies say they are already selling out for this summer, and antivirals are helping keep Islanders out of the hospital.

MLA Hal Perry is wondering if P.E.I. has an alternative tourism marketing strategy given the rate at which Islanders are being infected with COVID.

In the wake of the death of a West Prince man last month, the head of the company that runs ambulance services on Prince Edward Island says it is trying to fill nine vacancies for paramedics.

A woman from western P.E.I. says she watched her father die of a massive heart attack at his workplace while an ambulance took more than an hour to arrive from Summerside.

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