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B.C. should require health-care workers in long-term care to be vaccinated, or take steps to protect residents from being infected by them, says the president of the B.C. Care Providers Association. . .
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In Ontario, roughly 40 per cent of teachers have received their COVID-19 vaccination a good sign as the province begins to reopen, and students look to head back to the classroom, but a troubling sign considering that some two-thirds of Ontario’s overall population has gotten at least one injection.
Beyond this tidbit into the rate of vaccination of teachers in Ontario, across other sectors and jurisdiction of the essential-worker economy, it’s less than clear just how well-protected those workers are from severe illness, because it’s not known whether or not they’re vaccinated.
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142,000 health-care, assisted-living and long-term care staff in B.C. have now received vaccinations
The group has been a priority in the province s vaccination campaign both to protect front-line workers from infection and reduce the number of outbreaks in hospitals, care homes and other medical settings.
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