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Posted: April 30, 2021 Road-checks planned to limit non-essential travel The provincial government announced today it has authorized site-specific road checks on travel corridors between regions to help enforce the non-essential travel restrictions that were announced on April 23. On the advice of B.C.’s provincial health officer (PHO), Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, issued an Emergency Program Act order to prohibit non-essential travel between three regiona...

Police road checks added to further enforce B.C. non-essential travel ban SHARE ON: The province is adding a new layer to its non-essential travel ban. From now until May 25th, there will be counter-attack style, police road checks set up on highway corridors that connect B.C.’s health zones. If you get stopped at one of them, you could be asked for: your name, address and driver’s license, documentation regarding your name and address (for example, secondary identification that confirms yo...

Under the order, non-essential travel is banned between three regional zones in the province: • 1. Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley (Fraser Health and Coastal Health regions); • Vancouver Island (Island Health region); • Northern/Interior (Interior Health and Northern Health regions). During the first weekend of the new travel restrictions, BC Ferries vehicle traffic was down more than 25 per cent fleet-wide and passenger traffic was down more than 30 per cent, compared to the weeken...

by Province of British Columbia on Friday Apr 30 2021 To help keep communities safe and protect British Columbia’s health-care system from COVID-19, the Province has authorized site-specific road checks on travel corridors between regions to help enforce the non-essential travel restrictions that were announced on April 23, 2021. On the advice of B.C.’s provincial health officer (PHO), Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, issued an Eme...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Province of B.C. April 30, 2021 - 11:13 AM Road checks set up to stop non-essential travel between the Interior Health region and the Lower Mainland will only question the reason the driver is making the trip. Passengers will not be questioned Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said during a news briefing today, April 30, but he did not give a clear explanation as to why not. “The order was constructed on the basis of lega...

by Nelson Daily Staff on Tuesday Apr 27 2021 MP Rob Morrison said the National Police Federation has been hearing loud and clear from a growing number of RCMP members asking to oppose this order. Not everyone supports the recent implementation of lockdown measures recently introduced to the public by the BC Provincial Government. Friday, on the advice of Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer (PHO), Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicit...

B.C.s daily COVID-19 caseloads may be dropping, but positivity rates locally and provincially are still high.  Northern Healths seven-day moving average for a lab-confirmed detection of the virus is currently marked at 11.8 per cent, according to data from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). The regional authority shares that same number with Fraser Health, per the latest rate calculation on Monday (April 26), while B.C. collectively sits at 9.4 per cent. In comparison, Island Hea...

That was hardly surprising, since India is in the midst of a major outbreak, with up to 350,000 cases reported daily. India might also be the source of a new coronavirus variant. Over the same period, flights arrived in ­Vancouver from Amsterdam, Dallas, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Seattle, all with infected travellers aboard. And numerous flights arrived from cities elsewhere in Canada. Bowing to pressure from the provinces, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ordered a month-long ban...

Posted: April 27, 2021 State of emergency extended to May 11 The Province of British Columbia today (April 27) formally extended the provincial state of emergency, allowing health and emergency management officials to continue to use extraordinary powers under the Emergency Program Act (EPA) to support the province’s COVID-19 pandemic response. The state of emergency is extended through the end of the day on May 11, to allow staff to take the necessary actions to keep British Columbians safe...

BC Ferries traffic dips as travellers heed non-essential ban  SHARE ON: BC Ferries vessel photo by Troy Landreville, Vista Radio So far, so good for BC Ferries when it comes to the provincial health order banning non-essential travel. BC Ferries reported a 32 percent dip in passengers and 25 percent reduction in vehicles across its fleet last weekend, compared to the previous one. Spokesperson Deborah Marshall says people seem to be getting the message to stay on, and off, Vancouver Island un...