How to get your BC Vaccine Card
The Province is launching the BC Vaccine Card, a digital or printed document that shows the stage cardholders are at in their COVID-19 vaccine progress. The BC Vaccine Card will allow vaccinated people to conveniently and securely show their proof of vaccination at higher-risk social and recreational events and settings when...
Interior Health hosts school-based COVID-19 vaccine clinics
Interior Health, in partnership with School Districts throughout the Interior, is providing at-school COVID-19 immunization clinics for returning students, staff, and teachers. “Keeping schools open and safe is vital for the social and emotional well-being of students,” said Jennifer Whiteside, Education Minister. “We must ...
BC records 671 new cases and three deaths overnight
As of Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, 84.8% (3,929,089) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 77.1% (3,572,841) received their second dose. In addition, 85.4% (3,694,070) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose and 78.1% (3,376,103) received their second ...
Premier's statement in support of healthcare workers
Premier John Horgan has issued the following statement in support of healthcare workers in light of protests: "Health-care workers have been true heroes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, working long hours in difficult conditions to care for us, our loved ones and to keep our communities safe. "While everyone has the right ...
Jubilee Manor outbreak declared over, 237 new COVID-19 cases in Interior Health
On the same day when the province reported 801 new COVID-19 cases — 237 in Interior Health — the outbreak at Nelson’s Jubilee Manor seniors care home has been declared over. During six-week period since Interior Health declared the outbreak at the Rosemont long-term care home, five cases were reported —...
More than 1,000 dead in first half of 2021 as BC opioid crisis continues
At least 1,011 lives were lost to suspected illicit drug toxicity in B.C. between January and June 2021, according to data released by the BC Coroners Service. “The deaths of more than 1,000 British Columbians in the first six months of 2021 is a tragic reminder that the toxic illicit drug supply remains a significant ongoing...
BC reports 1,853 new COVID-19 cases; 707 in Interior Health
As of Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, 84.2% (3,904,121) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 76.4% (3,541,731) received their second dose. In addition, 84.9% (3,672,685) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose and 77.5% (3,350,149) received their second ...
IHA sees 350 new COVID-19 cases overnight, 867 in BC
As of Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, 83.9% (3,886,952) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 75.8% (3,514,485) received their second dose. In addition, 84.6% (3,657,914) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose and 76.9% (3,326,997) received their second ...
New COVID-19 cases in the Kootenays continue to increase
As new COVID-19 cases continue to increase across BC, so do the numbers of new cases in the Kootenay region. And again, the Nelson area has seen another increase after the BC Centre of Disease Control Wednesday released is most recent data, from August 15-21, 2021. Nelson saw an increase of almost 30 per cent from the previous...
Interior Health reports some residents given 'invalid' COVID-19 vaccine
Interior Health said in a media release Tuesday that it recently discovered doses of COVID-19 vaccine stored in an incorrect freezer and now considers the doses invalid. The result is hundreds of residents in the Revelstoke area are now being offered an additional shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. “Receiving an invalid dose of ...
