With cases of COVID-19 continuing to decline and vaccines doing its job, BC announced the Restart plan on Tuesday that will in four phases get us back to a normal way of living by July 2021. Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, reported 289 new cases, including four epi-linked cases, for a total of 142,636 cases in British Columbia.

By DESIBUZZCanada Staff

VICTORIA – With cases of COVID-19 continuing to decline and vaccines doing it’s job, BC announced the Restart plan on Tuesday that will in four phases get us back to a normal way of living by July 2021. 

Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, reported 289 new cases, including four epi-linked cases, for a total of 142,636 cases in British Columbia.

"There are 3,782 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. A further 137,062 people who tested positive have recovered,” they said in a joint statement.

"Of the active cases, 301 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 93 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation.

"Since we last reported, we have had 70 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 176 new cases in the Fraser Health region, three in the Island Health region, 35 in the Interior Health region, four in the Northern Health region and one new case of a person who resides outside of Canada.

"There has been one new COVID-19 related death, for a total of 1,680 deaths in British Columbia. Our condolences are with the family, friends and caregivers of the people who have died as a result of COVID-19.

"2,927,487 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to adults 18 and over in B.C., 148,580 of which are second doses.

"This means 64.6% of all adults have received their first dose, or 59.8% of those 12 and older.

"Today, Premier John Horgan provided the details of BC's four-step Restart Plan, charting our path forward through the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a careful and measured approach that will allow us to slowly ease restrictions.

"Our path forward is a collective effort and we all have a role to play - slowing community transmission by each of us getting our first and second doses of vaccine and continuing with our safety layers, in combination with public health teams actively contact tracing and containing new clusters and outbreaks.

"As cases continue to decline and immunizations steadily rise, we are moving forward with purpose, monitoring our progress to ensure we remain on track.

"What will remain the same - no matter what - is the importance of washing our hands, staying home and staying away from others when we are ill, and getting tested should we develop any symptoms of COVID-19.

"We are not yet through this storm, but the end is in sight. We are getting closer every day, and now there is a clear roadmap for how we'll get there."

Learn More:

BC's Restart Plan - to see the May 25, 2021, presentation, visit: http://news.gov.bc.ca/files/BCRestartPlan.pdf

The latest vaccine information:

Register for your vaccine now: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/register or call 1-833-838-2323 (https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/register%20or%20call%201-833-838-2323).

For vaccine information, visit the BCCDC dashboard: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/data
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