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Mushrooms are sprouting seemingly out of nowhere, and the recent rain is to blame.

Mushrooms are sprouting seemingly out of nowhere, and the recent rain is to blame.

If you heard two dull roars over the skies in the Yukon this morning, you can attribute it to this week’s COVID-19 briefing. First, the territorial government announced daycares will return to full service beginning Monday after being partially or completely closed over the last two weeks. While that will be a relief for parents, the truly big news was Premier Sandy Silver saying that if the downward trend of active virus cases continues and vaccination rates keep rising, the COVID state of e...

Yukon officials say all is well with the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as they gave their weekly briefing on the virus on Wednesday afternoon. Premier Sandy Silver and Dr. Brendan Hanley, the territory’s medical officer of health, outlined the current situation from the number of active cases – which is zero – to the ongoing vaccination clinics. A new case hasn’t been reported for just over a week, according to the government figures. That’s good news by any standard, but Silver...

Whitehorse clinic offering COVID-19 testing for travel, work The Hummingbird Mobile Clinic is sending samples to a lab down south or processing them locally using a rapid-testing machine to provide COVID-19 test results for people who need them for either travel, work or just peace of mind. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 05, 2021 3:59 PM CT | Last Updated: January 6 Mieke Leonard, chief nursing officer at Hummingbird Mobile Health, poses for a photo with the bCUBE, a machine that enab...

Yukon officials were quick this morning to pour some cold water on the notion that the COVID-19 virus is functionally eradicated in the territory. It’s been a week since a case was discovered in the territory, and there are currently no active cases. Still, both Dr. Brendan Hanley and Premier Sandy Silver downplayed the idea the virus has been extirpated, even for the moment. “It would be premature to say that,” Hanley told the weekly COVID-19 media briefing. “I would never go that far...