"I've been in tears several times over the past month or two about not being able to go," said Meghan Larin, a Canadian living in Wales.

News Hour at 6 anchors Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui hosted the one-hour event that focused on the province's latest round of measures to curb transmission.

The province also extended the ban on social gatherings outside of one's immediate household in the Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health regions to December, and expanded it to the entire province.

One embattled travel executive's outlook could give hope to an industry hit hard by COVID-19, Mike Smyth says.

One case involves a man in the eastern health region between 40 and 49 years old who travelled to the province for work from Russia.

According to the public health, the flight departed Montreal at 1:45 p.m. and landed in Halifax at 4:05 p.m.

"As we see the surge in COVID-19 cases in other parts of Canada, we need to take further steps to slow the spread here."

The province said the new cases are in Central Zone.

The province said two new coronavirus cases are in the Western Zone, two are in the Northern Zone and one is in the Central Zone.

The route, which has now been cancelled for November, has been in place since 1942.