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VICTORIA The past week has featured three tests of Premier John Horgan’s promise of openness and transparency and his NDP government failed all three.
The most telling example was the leak of two internal reports from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, which showed the government has been assembling far more information about the COVID-19 outbreak than it made public.
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“The internal reports each over 45 pages are four times longer than the weekly reports published by the centre,” as Nathan Griffiths reported in The Vancouver Sun on Friday. “They delve into the details of COVID-19 case counts and vaccinations at the neighbourhood level, breakdowns about variants of concern, and more … a level of detail the centre has so far refused to make public despite repeated calls from a
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A woman in her 40s has become the first person in B.C. to develop blood clots after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“We have had our first case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, that we have seen around the world and across the country,” provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said on Thursday.
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“This was following receipt of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination, and the person is a woman in their 40s. She is stable and currently receiving treatment in hospital in the Vancouver Coastal Health (region).”
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Canada’s fourth approved vaccine is expected to arrive in B.C. next week, adding another level of protection as the seven-day average daily COVID-19 case count starts to fall.
B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the federal government was set to receive a shipment of 300,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine by the end of this week.
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“We don’t have dates yet, but we’re looking at, hopefully, some time next week,” Henry said, as she reported 2,491 new cases of COVID-19 over the past three days and 17 deaths.
Manitoba reports 2nd COVID-19 death tied to coronavirus variant, 1st variant case in north
Another death has been tied to more contagious coronavirus variants in Manitoba, and the first case of a variant has been identified in the province s north.
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Another death has been tied to one of the more contagious coronavirus variants in Manitoba, and the first case of a variant has been identified in the province s north.