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BC lifts health facility masking and care home visitor requirements, ending final COVID-19 restrictions on public

Province believes “emergency phase” of COVID is ending, but critics argue long-term effects mean continued danger

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Island teachers, parents report high absences, illnesses amid lack of public health data

By Brishti Basu
October 28, 2022

Around 20% of an Island elementary school is absent every day due to illness, according to its principal

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Emails show Dr. Bonnie Henry knew of concerns over BC’s COVID-19 data and school exposures while publicly downplaying them

During what officials called a ‘daunting’ spike in school exposures, the provincial health officer maintained that spring break drove infections, not in-school transmission

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Victoria hospitals, long COVID clinic brace for summer wave of COVID-19 reinfections

By Brishti Basu
June 30, 2022

New subvariants that can get past antibodies are on the rise in BC, while new research shows reinfections increase overall health risks

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‘Never seen it this bad’: new long COVID clinic opens in Victoria, as emergency rooms fill up

By Brishti Basu
April 14, 2022

At the Saanich Peninsula Hospital ER, a doctor says more patients without family doctors are showing up with post-COVID complications and other, worsening afflictions

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BC removing vaccine card, daily reports despite signs of 6th wave

By Brishti Basu
April 5, 2022

Cases and hospitalizations are ticking upward, but BC is staying the course by removing restrictions and data sharing

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Experts, critics urge caution as BC lifts mask mandate and other restrictions

By Brishti Basu
March 10, 2022

There’s room for optimism as the province announces its plan to remove restrictions, but this comes with new risks: BA.2 and the need to protect the most vulnerable

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Vaccinated or not, on Lasqueti Island, everyone has to get along

By Brishti Basu
February 28, 2022

The island made headlines recently for its hardline anti-vax community, but there’s more to running a community than fighting over vaccines