“I’m so excited to just have a chance to get in there and be protected as part of this B.C. vaccine rollout and to protect my own family my husband and children at home, and my father who is going through cancer treatment,” said Crystal, who was scheduled for her shot at Eagle Ridge Community Centre in the West Shore on Monday evening. Island Health contacted school districts, licenced childcare operators and municipal governments that oversee police officers and firefighters on Friday with vaccination-registration instructions through the province’s Get Vaccinated system on Saturday. Dr. Richard Stanwick, chief medical health officer for Island Health, said Friday the target is to have people in all four groups vaccinated by mid-month with a first dose.
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“From September to March, our schools had three COVID exposures,” said GVTA president Winona Waldron. “In the four weeks school has been in session from March to this point, we have had 18 more exposures reported. “We are hearing from our members that they are not necessarily informed when a case is in their class, [when] they have a student who is a close contact of a COVID case, or when siblings are affected.” Most recently, COVID-19 exposures have been reported at Mount Douglas Secondary School and Victoria High School, where classes are being held at the former S.J. Willis Education Centre while the Fernwood school undergoes a seismic refit and expansion.
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“But it significantly went down the day after and the day after that, so I think it’s been more of a reactive piece to what the media has said and [parents’] concerns for their kids that they hear through the grapevine.” Green said close tracking has been done at Cedar Hill Middle School, which had three COVID‑19 exposure notices over the Easter long weekend, and shows a 40 per cent absentee rate for Tuesday, 38 for Wednesday and 34 for Thursday. Sunny and warm days make a difference to the situation, she said. “The better weather helps because everyone just spends more time outside.”