BC Lifts Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers, Says Emergency Over

B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has lifted public health emergency orders, allowing the 2,000 health-care workers who lost their jobs for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine to return to work. Dr. Henry announced July 26 the province was ending the public health emergency and “rescinding all related orders,” including the vaccine mandate imposed on health-care workers in 2021. British Columbia had been in a “public health emergency” since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 virus, she said. “While COVID-19 is not gone, we now have high levels of protection in the health-care system and in communities throughout B.C.,” Dr. Henry said in a statement....