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Obstacles included staff turnover and a lack of data on privately funded facilities

Michael Pickup says the ministry had processes to estimate vaccination rates but the process was cumbersome.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's auditor general says the Ministry of Health should have access to a registry of residents and staff in long-term care facilities as well as heath-care workers after concluding it sometimes "struggled" to collect reliable

VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says the Ministry of Health struggled at times to collect reliable information for groups at high risk of COVID-19 infection as it shaped its vaccination campaign.

The auditor general of B.C. has found that while overall tracking of the province’s immunization rates and access to the COVID-19 vaccines was good, there were issues in reporting and record-keeping.

British Columbia's auditor general says the Ministry of Health struggled at times to collect reliable information for groups at high risk of COVID-19 infection as it shaped its vaccination campaign.

British Columbia's auditor general says the Ministry of Health struggled at times to collect reliable information for groups at high risk of COVID-19 infection as it shaped its vaccination campaign.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. rose slightly on Thursday, but remains near a 14-month low.

British Columbia's auditor general says the Ministry of Health struggled at times to collect reliable information for groups at high risk of COVID-19 infection as it shaped its vaccination campaign.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's Provincial Health Services Authority must "do better," the auditor general said, after his office found it was not consistently providing services to Indigenous inmates with mental health and addictions diagnoses.