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B.C. is lagging behind in administering all the COVID-19 vaccines in its supply, with only 73 per cent of doses sent by the federal government actually making it into people’s arms. Provincial health officials have consistently said the pandemic is now a race between vaccine delivery and rapidly rising variants of concern, a race the variants seem to be winning.
As of Thursday, B.C. administered 946,096 doses out of its total 1,289,060-dose supply, putting it ahead of most provinces and territories in Canada. According to data compiled through the COVID-19 vaccination tracker using official government sources, B.C. is only behind Saskatchewan, which has administered 82.2 per cent of its doses, and Northwest Territories, which is sitting at 74.8 per cent. The largest gap between vaccines administered and vaccines received is in Manitoba at 54.6 per cent.
National committee recommends longer interval between COVID-19 vaccine doses
P.E.I. s plan to have every adult receive their first vaccine dose by the beginning of July was validated by Canada s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) late Wednesday.
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There are no easy answers in how best to link urban and rural areas in Canada, a workshop discussing the issue found Wednesday.
And participants in one breakout discussion found the “us versus them” attitude between cities and towns and villages hinders any progress.
The group, part of a national “think tank” session on links between urban and rural Canada hosted by the College on New Caledonia and the University of Northern British Columbia, also found rural areas are disadvantaged when it comers to attention from provincial governments.
“Seventy per cent of the economy is generated in rural B.C.,” mayor Colin Kinsley told his group of 13, one of three the 50 participants were split into as part of the session. “But we can’t seem to get that through to the lawmakers, because only 19 of the 79 seats are in rural B.C.”