Public Health Minister Mike Farnsworth.
The province is introducing travel restrictions that limit non-essential travel in B.C.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Minister of Public Safety Mike Farnworth introduced rarely-used extraordinary powers of the Emergency Program Act to prohibit non-essential travel between three regional zones in the province, using health authority boundaries. The regional zones are:
1. Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley (Fraser Health and Coastal Health regions);
2. Vancouver Island (Island Health region); and
3. Northern/Interior (Interior Health and Northern Health regions.)
Breaking the rules can come with a $575 fine.
Farnworth confirmed that he has met with members of groups that have been racially-targeted in the past, though those that he met with asked to keep the list private.
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