British Columbia has halted non-essential travel between three regional zones in the province.
Announced last Friday, the regional zones are Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley (Fraser Health and Coastal Health regions); Vancouver Island (Island Health region); and Northern/Interior (Interior Health and Northern Health regions).
The order is in effect from April 23 to May 25, 2021.
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“This order applies to non-essential travel. There are circumstances where travel is essential and permissible, such as attending school or work, the commercial transportation of goods, returning to a principal residence, accessing child care, obtaining health care or assisting someone to receive health care,” states a release by the B.C. government.
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Despite COVID-19 protocols that take 21 pages to list online, St. Eugene RV Park in the East Kootenays has shut down its sprawling facility to anyone but locals and cancelled 130 of 150 bookings through the May long weekend.
“I lost a lot of reservations,” said manager Richard Grimm at the park owned by five First Nations. It includes a golf course, spa and casino. “Most of the reservations are from Alberta. That’s where our money comes from. We refunded a lot of people.”
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Despite COVID-19 protocols that take 21 pages to list online, St. Eugene RV Park in the East Kootenays has shut down its sprawling facility to anyone but locals and cancelled 130 of 150 bookings through the May long weekend.
“I lost a lot of reservations,” said manager Richard Grimm at the park owned by five First Nations. It includes a golf course, spa and casino. “Most of the reservations are from Alberta. That’s where our money comes from. We refunded a lot of people.”
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COVID-19: 1,001 new cases, four deaths as new travel restrictions come into effect Health officials encouraged British Columbians to stick closer to home and to get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible.
Author of the article: Cheryl Chan
Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 2 minute read • VICTORIA, B.C.: March 18, 2021 Premier John Horgan, Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer, and Dr. Penny Ballem, executive lead for B.C.’s immunization plan, announce that 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. Photo Don Craig / B.C. Government Learn more: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021PREM0015-000355 [PNG Merlin Archive]
by Province of British Columbia on Friday Apr 23 2021
Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, has issued a new order using the extraordinary powers of the Emergency Program Act to prohibit non-essential travel between three regional zones in the province, using health authority boundaries.
To help keep communities safe and protect British Columbia’s health-care system from COVID-19, the Province is introducing travel restrictions that limit non-essential travel in B.C.
On the advice of Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer (PHO), Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, has issued a new order using the extraordinary powers of the Emergency Program Act to prohibit non-essential travel between three regional zones in the province, using health authority boundaries.