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Officials have vowed to provide more information on how COVID-19 is affecting specific neighbourhoods after criticism that B.C. is withholding crucial figures from the public.
Despite that, the provincial health officer defended the province’s release of figures, insisting officials release as much information as they can and denying that B.C. falls behind other provinces in terms of transparency.
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“We are releasing more than what other provinces are releasing,” Dr. Bonnie Henry said Friday, adding that every month she and Health Minister Adrian Dix present COVID-19 modelling information based on information compiled by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. “We have been very open from the very beginning where we presented as much as we could by areas.”
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