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BC Launches Spring Vaccine Booster

Apr 8, 2024

Spring Booster program

B.C.’s health minister has announced a spring COVID-19 booster campaign, with shots recommended for seniors, Indigenous people over 55 and long-term care home residents in particular.

Invitations to book a spring shot started rolling out Monday, according to Health Minister Adrian Dix.

Dix also told reporters the province is changing its rules around mandatory mask-wearing in health-care settings, with health-care workers no longer required to mask in public settings amid a decline in reported COVID-19 infections.

“We’re returning to the rules that were in place prior to respiratory illness season,” he said.

“That’s an important change, and that’s reflected in the changes that we put in place today at the centre at the end of respiratory illness season,” he added. “It’s a pattern that probably you could expect to be repeated in future respiratory illness seasons as well.”

Dix said British Columbians have been more supportive of COVID-19 immunization than residents of any other Canadian jurisdiction.

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