British Columbia has lifted pandemic restrictions including mandatory mask-wearing in health–care settings, and proof of vaccination and COVID test results for visitors in care homes.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Thursday that the requirement for health–care workers to be fully vaccinated would remain, but the steady decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations indicated the province was “emerging” from the pandemic.
Henry said that despite the continued presence of COVID-19 infections in the next few months, authorities were likely to be able to say that B.C. was no longer in a pandemic.
The lifting of restrictions took effect immediately, but Henry said it did not mean such restrictions would not return in the fall, as experts were still studying the seasonality of COVID….