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He called for mandatory timelines for decisions made by facility staff on requests for visits as well as for each stage of an appeals process. Care homes should also provide written reasons when visits are denied or restricted, he said. “When the stakes are high, we expect to see high standards of fairness and high standards of fairness, as a minimum, require a clear process, and if someone’s been unsuccessful, clear reasons as to why they’ve been unsuccessful in their application,” Chalke said in an interview. In January, after months of fighting for designation as an essential visitor for her 89-year-old mother in a Nanaimo seniors home, Jeanette Harper was approved but she never knew why she was first denied in June nor why she was approved last month. ....
VANCOUVER There is new hope for Canadians in the fight against COVID-19. On the same day that B.C. began its vaccination program, Canada has locked in more than 100,000 doses of a second early vaccine. “Canada Is now contracted to receive up to 160,000 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before the end of the December, pending Health Canada approval,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. The Moderna vaccine doesn’t need the special handling required by the Pfizer vaccine, such as extreme freezers to store it in. That means doses of the vaccine will be directed to the north as well as remote and Indigenous communities,” Trudeau explained to reporters in Ottawa. ....