Hockey Canada has announced that general manager Gina Kingsbury will not return after eight years with the national women’s team.

British hospitals are cancelling non-urgent procedures and scrambling to find space for COVID-19 patients as coronavirus cases continue to surge despite tough new restrictions imposed to curb a fast-spreading new variant of the virus. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)LONDON – British hospitals are canceling non-urgent procedures and scrambling to find space for COVID-19 patients as coronavirus cases continue to surge despite tough new restrictions imposed to curb a fast-spreading new variant of the virus. British authorities are blaming a new variant of the coronavirus for soaring infection rates in London and southeast England. That is only slightly below the high of 21,683 COVID-19 patients who were recorded in U.K. hospitals on April 12. Still, there is rising confidence help could soon be on the way, with expectation mounting that U.K. regulators may authorize a second coronavirus vaccine this week.